Lynn Fowler focuses his practice on corporate and business tax law. He specializes in helping clients develop and implement tax-efficient strategies for varied business formation, financing, operations, and disposition transactions. Mr. Fowler has significant experience in advising clients to qualify for a variety of federal income tax credits. He has also been the lead tax advisor on numerous taxable and tax-free M&A transactions as well as a variety of other strategic corporate transactions. He serves as Chair of the firm's Tax team.

Mr. Fowler was listed in the 2011 and the two years immediately preceding editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business and Georgia Trend’s "Legal Elite" for Taxes, Estates & Trusts in 2009, 2010 and 2011. He was listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Tax Law in 2011 and 2012. He was recognized as a Georgia "Super Lawyer" by SuperLawyers magazine in 2012 and the three years immediately preceding. He is AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.*

* CV, BV, and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedure's standards and policies.

Professional & Community Activities

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Board of Directors

American Bar Association, Taxation Section, Committee on Partnership Taxation, Member

Atlanta Tax Forum, Member

Planned Parenthood Southeast, Board of Directors

State Bar of Georgia, Taxation Section, Member

University of Georgia School of Law, Adjunct Professor

Education

  • University of Alabama School of Law, J.D. (1986)
  • New York University School of Law, LL.M., Taxation (1987)
  • University of Alabama, B.S., Accounting (1982)

Bar Admissions

  • Not Licensed in District of Columbia
  • Georgia (1986)

Who We Are

Suite 2800, 1100 Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA, 30309-4528
USA
t +1 404.815.6653
f +1 404.541.3204
Suite 900, 607 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC, 20005-2018
USA
t +1 202.824.1428

Lynn E. Fowler

Experience Highlights

Private placement of real estate opportunity fund for Wells Real Estate
Represent Wells Real Estate in private placement of real estate opportunity fund. more
Sale of business for supplier of custom machine parts
Represented a long-established supplier of seals, O-rings and other custom machine parts in connection with the sale of its business to a UK-based more
Global License, Development and Commercialization agreement for Biotest AG
Served as lead counsel in representing Biotest AG (Biotest), a German publicly traded biotechnology company, in signing a global License, Development more
Sale of pathology laboratory
Represented seller in the sale of pathology laboratory through the sale of shares following spinoff of anatomic laboratory to shareholder. more