| Biography | Warren is Co-Chair of the firm's Automotive Group and practices in the Business section, focusing on economic development, state and local taxation, governmental affairs, nonprofit entities, partnership taxation, probate disputes and tax dispute counseling and advocacy. He has worked extensively with domestic and foreign companies, such as IPSCO Steel and Kronospan, to secure economic and tax incentives for facilities locating in the Southeastern United States. In addition, Warren assisted with the negotiation of the incentives packages with the State for the recent Mercedes-Benz and Honda plant expansions in Alabama. To date, Warren has worked on new economic development projects and expansions representing over $15 billion of capital investment and the creation of over 20,000 new jobs. Most recently, Warren and his partner, Lee Thuston, assisted with the site selection process for KIA Motors Corporation for a new automotive manufacturing plant to be located in West Point, Georgia, and ThyssenKrupp Steal and Stainless USA, LLC, for facilities to be located in Mobile County, Alabama. In 2000, Warren and his family moved to Greenville, Alabama, and he opened the Montgomery, Alabama office for Burr & Forman. The Montgomery office serves as the center of the firm's governmental relations and regulatory practices. It provides Burr & Forman's clients with valuable access to the state government and its many functions. Warren is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the Economic Development, Nonprofit, and Tax Law categories. Warren is co-author, with partner Bruce Rawls, of "Proposed Amendment to the Alabama Qualification and Franchise Taxes: Promoting Horizontal Equity for Domestic and Foreign Taxpayers" (43 Alabama Law Review 683, 1992). He is co-author, with partners Louis Anders and Lee Thuston, of Alabama Limited Liability Company Forms and Practice Manual. He authored Chapter 17 "Nonprofit Corporations of Contemporary Corporation Forms" (Second Edition) and "Alabama Laws Concerning Nonprofit Organizations" in the Exempt Organizations Tax Review (1998). Warren frequently lectures on topics involving state and local taxation, economic development, nonprofit entity issues, charitable planned giving and estate administration. Warren received his B.S. from the University of Alabama. He received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University, where he was the Student Authorities Editor of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law I. He also received his LL.M. degree in Taxation from New York University. American Bar Association
Member, Taxation Section
Member, Exempt Organizations Committee Alabama State Bar Member, Taxation Section |