Accepts Credit Cards
Tanner & Guin represents privately-held and family-owned businesses across Alabama in matters relating to all areas of building, maintaining, and growing a business. The firm represents a broad base of local, regional, national, and international concerns in areas such as business financing (including bonds and tax-exempt financing), mergers and acquisitions, federal, state, and local taxation, litigation and mediation, labor and employment law, environmental law, real estate, estate planning and probate, trademark/trade name, and copyright law. The firm also services businesses in the areas of business succession planning and charitable/planned giving.
In representing privately-held and family-owned businesses, attorneys have experience in navigating the various business issues from building and starting a business, managing a business at various stages, preparing businesses to be sold, or merging and acquiring other businesses during a growth and expansion stage. In the areas of litigation and mediation, the firm represents clients that are based in Alabama in resolving disputes, and companies headquartered outside the State of Alabama operating facilities and subsidiaries in the State.
The firm has experience in economic development and industrial incentives, dealing with the various tax and financing programs available to companies and businesses. In addition, the firm services industries across the board with their various legal needs in managing and growing their businesses. These industries include construction, real estate development and property management, health care, manufacturing, wholesale and distribution, publishing and media, retail, and non-profit organizations, including churches and various religious and charitable organizations.
Tanner & Guin is an active community leader as a sponsor of the Kentuck Arts Festival, Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra, Theatre Tuscaloosa and The Arts Council, and capital campaigns for The University of Alabama, Shelton State Community College and Stillman College. Attorneys serve on Boards for various industry, civic and non-profit organizations throughout the area and actively participate in building and growing the business community and infrastructure of West Alabama.
Tanner & Guin is a member of LawPact, an international association of independent business law firms. Membership and participation in LawPact provides our firm with resource and referral networks in cities worldwide.
Statement of Practice
Business Law, Corporate Law, Commercial Law, Bond Finance, Industrial Development Bonds, Corporate Finance, Business Acquisitions/Sales and Disputes, Business and Civil Litigation, Banking Regulation, Bankruptcy, Estate Planning, Trust Planning, Environmental Law, Real Property, Trademarks, Trade Names, Copyrights, Antitrust and Unfair Competition, Corporate Taxation, Individual Tax and Income Tax, Labor and Employment, Employment Litigation, Partnership Law, Limited Liability Company Law, Probate, State Taxation, Local Taxation, Tax Exempt Organizations, Charitable Giving, Tax Litigation, Franchise Law, Class Action Defense, Newspaper Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Immigration and Naturalization and Local Government Law.
Year Established: 1984
Firm Size: 14
Representative Clients:
Affiliated Paper Companies, Inc.
AFFLINK Inc.
Amason & Associates, Inc.
Avedis Zildjian Company
Bama Concrete Products
Black Warrior Corporation d/b/a Henson's Cypress Inn
Boise Cascade Corporation
Boone Newspapers, Inc.
Champion Enterprises, Inc.
City of Northport, AL
Cohens Electronics, Inc.
Comcast Cablevision, Inc.
Corus America, Inc.
Corus Group plc
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company
Embassy One Real Estate, Inc.
Fitts Industries, Inc.
Friday Lumber Company Incorporated
GBCC, Inc.
GMAC Financial Corporation
Granite Publications, Inc.
Brion Hardin Construction Company, Inc.
Henson's Cypress Inn and Let's Eat Diners
Indian Rivers Mental Health/Mental Retardation Center
International Truck and Equipment
Jeffco Concrete Contractors, Inc.
Johnson Controls
JVC America, Inc.
Let's Eat Diners
Let's Eat Inc. d/b/a 15th Street Diner
Tom McLeod Software Corporation
Mead Corporation
Michelin Tire Corporation, North America
The Morrow Companies
Jim Myers Drug, Inc.
New York Times Holdings
News Media Corporation
Northport Health Services, Inc.
Nucor Steel Tuscaloosa, Inc.
PTS Newspapers, Inc.
Pace Learning Systems, Inc.
Phifer Wire Products
Premier Service Corporation
RaCON, Inc.
Reichhold Chemicals, Inc.
Resource and Financial Management Systems, Inc.
Rite Aid Corporation
David A. Scott, D.M.D., LLC
The Sealy Companies
Sealy Management Company, Inc.
Sealy Realty Company, Inc.
Southeast Cancer Network, Inc.
Southern Pride Catfish Co., Inc.
Southern Pride Catfish LLC
Spiller Associated Furniture Stores, Inc.
Stillman College
TTL, Inc.
Taylorville Restaurant, Inc. d/b/a Taylorville Diner, Northport
Town of Millport, AL
Tuscaloosa County Board of Education
Tuscaloosa Steel Corporation
Tuscaloosa Toyota
Unimin Corporation
University of Alabama
WAR Construction, Inc.
Wachovia Bank, N.A.
Warren Tire & Auto, Inc.
Warrior of Arkansas, Inc.
Warrior Roofing Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Warrior Tractor & Equipment Company, Inc.
Wick Communications, Co.
F.D. Wilson Trucking Co., Inc.
Woodstock Drug, Inc.
ZF Industries Inc.
Clients
APPROVED BOND COUNSEL FOR: Alabama Housing Finance Authority, Alabama State Board of Education
Colonial Bank
Compass Bank
First Commercial Bank, First National Bank of Central Alabama
Regions Bank
Wachovia Bank
The Bank of Tuscaloosa.
Former Names
(formerly Tanner & Guin, P.C.)
Rate Information
Accepts Major Credit Cards
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