Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Dumas & O’Neal LLP
2001 Park Place North, Suite 700
Birmingham, Alabama 35203-4804

Telephone: 205-716-5273
Facsimile: 205-716-5389
Email: bgw@cabaniss.com 

Initial contact with this attorney by email does not create an attorney-client relationship.

Areas of Practice:

Corporate and General Business
     Law
Taxation

Education:

LL.M. in Taxation, New York
     University School of Law, 2005
Certificate in Law and Business,
     New York University Stern
     School of Business, 2005
J.D., cum laude, University of
     Alabama School of Law, 2004
B.A., University of South
     Alabama, 1993
Certificate in Russian Linguistics,
     Rostovskii Gosudarstvennyi
     Universitet, 1992

Admitted to Practice:

Alabama State Bar (2005)
United States Tax Court
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama

Brian G. Wilson

Brian Wilson has a broad-based business and tax law practice that includes advising clients on all matters from business entity choice and formation to dissolution. He has advised clients regarding corporate governance; asset transfers; purchase and sale of stock, partnership and LLC membership interests; mergers and acquisitions; financing agreements, security interests and related lending law matters; real property leases, purchases and sales; private offerings of securities and exemptions from registration under the Securities Act and state Blue Sky laws; transaction reporting under federal antitrust law (Hart-Scott-Rodino Act); and the due diligence required for the foregoing transactions. Brian currently serves on the Alabama Law Institute's Drafting Committee for the Alabama Revised Limited Liability Company Law.

With an LL.M. in Taxation, Brian also advises clients on the tax consequences, and efficient tax treatment, of business and personal property transactions. In addition, he has extensive experience in tax controversy, having successfully litigated tax cases against the Internal Revenue Service and Alabama Department of Revenue in federal and state courts, and negotiated settlements, offers-in-compromise and payment plans with those agencies.

In law school, Brian was an editor of the Alabama Law Review, a board member of the Public Interest Institute, and a member of the Bench and Bar Honor Society. He received the Thomas Goode Jones, William P. Jackson, and Judge Robert E. Hodnette endowed scholarships, and the Alabama Federal Tax Clinic Scholarship.

Prior to attending law school, Brian was an Intelligence Officer in the United States Navy, where he served onboard the U.S.S. George Washington in the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, and with the Department of Defense Human Intelligence Service in Korea.