Gary S. Schiff

Shareholder

Birmingham
T: 205.250.8309
F: 205.488.3709

Gary Schiff concentrates his practice in the areas of corporate business, mergers and acquisitions, health care, federal and state taxation, and estate and trust planning.

Professional Biography

Mr. Schiff serves as a strategic advisor and general counsel for closely held businesses and corporations in various industries including food, health, construction, mining and industrial manufacturing. He helps clients with corporate governance and structuring, acquisitions, litigation, agreements, succession and planning, as well as general business matters.

Represent a privately owned food manufacturer with products nationally distributed in their general business and corporate matters, including corporate governance, shareholder agreements, commercial agreements, and corporate succession planning, among others.
Represent distributors of industrial lubricants and petroleum products in the Southeastern United States.
Represent coal mining operation in all aspects of legal compliance including environmental.
Represent private business in their global endeavors, international relations and immigration needs.
Represent medical practices with contractual needs and regulatory requirements.
Represented a specialty health care organization in the sale to a joint venture combining a hospital, two oncology practices and our client.
Represented a printing company in the $4.5 million stock sale and long-term lease of a company-owned facility.
Negotiated with an Alabama utility on behalf of a steel processing company regarding the utility's plan to place a high voltage transmission line on the company's service road. The negotiation resulted in an agreement to reroute the transmission line.

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America^® for Corporate Law since 2010; Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships) since 2012; Closely Held Companies and Family Business Law since 2013; Tax Law since 2019; Mergers and Acquisitions Law since 2021
Member – American and Birmingham Bar Associations
Member – Alabama State Bar
Member – Indiana State Bar

"Corporate Governance Risks for M&A Deals in a Difficult Economy," Inside the Minds: Managing Corporate Governance Issues in M&A, Aspatore Books (2010)

Baker Donelson Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America^® 2024 Listing (August 17, 2023)
Baker Donelson Attorneys Earn Recognition in The Best Lawyers in America® 2023 Listing (August 18, 2022)
Baker Donelson Attorneys Earn Recognition in The Best Lawyers in America® 2022 Listing (August 19, 2021)
Baker Donelson Top-Listed in the Nation in Six Practice Areas in The Best Lawyers in America^® 2021 Listing (August 20, 2020)

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Education

New York University, LL.M. in Taxation, 1983
Indiana University School of Law, J.D., 1981, magna cum laude
Indiana University, B.S., 1978, with distinction

Admissions

Indiana, 1981
Alabama, 1983
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama, 1983
U.S. Tax Court, 1982
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 1983

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