Zach D. Wilson
Partner
Atlanta
171 17th Street NW
Suite 2100
Suite 2100
Atlanta, Georgia 30363
Biography
Zach is a partner in the Tax practice.
Zach focuses his practice on managing the federal income tax effects on partnerships, corporations, tax-exempt organizations, and individuals involved in tax planning related to domestic and international business transactions. He has extensive experience representing private equity funds and real estate investment trusts (REITs) in connection with their formation, acquisitions, and divestitures.
Zach also counsels and advises on tax issues associated with nonqualified deferred compensation plans for both taxable and tax-exempt entities and executive incentive and equity-based compensation plans.
Related Services
Experience
- Tax counsel to veterinary practice consolidator in over 150 acquisitions and $1.6 billion recapitalization transaction.
- Represented optometry practice management platform company in over 100 acquisitions.
- Represented private equity fund in its sale of medical aesthetics portfolio company for $265 million.
- Represented private equity fund in its sale of physical therapy portfolio company for over $100 million.
- Represented a publicly traded REIT in a $1.125 billion acquisition and restructuring of a senior housing provider that operates 96 senior-living communities as well as pharmacies in the Midwest.
- Represented a public healthcare REIT in connection with its acquisition of a $310 million portfolio of continuing care retirement communities in a RIDEA transaction.
- Represented a public healthcare REIT in connection with its acquisition of a $455 million portfolio of assets in the United Kingdom.
- Represented a real estate private equity fund in multiple investments and joint ventures in the hospitality sector.
Client Successes
- PE Rollups – Meeting the Challenge of Buying 30+ Companies in a Year
- Zero Mile Presents – Music Venue Deal Sounds Sweet for Georgia’s Booming Entertainment Business
- Century Restaurants, Inc. – Reorganization, refinancing strengthen large franchisee
- Advanced Medical Pricing Solutions, Inc. – Tax Advice Results in Additional Cash for Selling Shareholders
- Healey Weatherholtz Properties – Equity Financing Negotiated in Award-Winning Turner Field Redevelopment
- Outcomes Health Information Solutions, LLC: Company Sale Done Quickly, Avoiding Disruption
- LakePoint Sporting Community & Town Center® - How Key Land Deals Set Stage for Mixed-Use Project
- SunTrust Bank - Broad Range of Expertise Resolves Legal Complications in $32 Million Loan Deal
Credentials
Education
- New York University School of Law, LLM in Taxation
- Emory University School of Law, Juris Doctor,with High Honors
- Order of the Coif
- Notes and Comments Editor, Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal
- University of Georgia, Bachelor of Arts,magna cum laude
Admissions
- State of Georgia
Recognition
- Best Lawyers in America®, Tax Law, 2025
News & Insights
- NewsAGG Represents BOLDSCIENCE in Sale to Minds + Assembly, Expanding Healthcare Communications Platform for Pharma IndustryDecember 2, 2024 | News Releases | Minds + Assembly
- NewsAGG Represents Georgia Oak Partners in Investment in T ManagementNovember 1, 2024 | News Releases | Georgia Oak Partners
- NewsAGG Increases Number of Attorneys Recognized in 2025 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America® With Four Named “Lawyer of the Year”August 15, 2024 | Rankings & Recognition | News Releases | Arnall Golden Gregory LLP