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Lorna Wilson

Lorna
Wilson

Partner

CONTACT INFO

lwilson@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+1 213.229.7547

FAX:+1 213.229.6547

Los Angeles

333 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90071-3197 USA

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PRACTICE

Tax Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)

BIOGRAPHY

Lorna Wilson is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Los Angeles office and a member of the firm’s Tax Practice Group.  Ms. Wilson’s practice focuses on federal income tax matters, including corporate, limited liability company and partnership tax matters in both the U.S. and international contexts.  She has worked on a variety of transactions, including taxable and tax-free mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and reorganizations, joint ventures, investment funds, public and private offerings of stock, debt and derivatives and financing transactions.  Ms. Wilson additionally has extensive experience in tax planning for real estate transactions, including advising on investments in real estate by U.S. and non-U.S. investors, including foreign governments, dispositions of real estate, real estate investment trust (REIT) matters and California state and local real estate tax issues, including property and transfer taxes issues.

Ms. Wilson was recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ in Tax Law in 2022 and 2023.

Ms. Wilson received a law degree in 2007 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif.  She graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2004.

Ms. Wilson is admitted to practice law in the State of California.

EDUCATION

University of California - Los Angeles - 2007 Juris Doctor

University of California - Los Angeles - 2004 Bachelor of Arts

ADMISSIONS

California Bar

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Client Alert - November 14, 2022 | Measure ULA: New Transfer Tax on Los Angeles Residential and Commercial Real Property Sales Over $5 Million
Client Alert - May 29, 2021 | Biden Administration Releases Fiscal Year 2022 Budget, Together With a “Greenbook” Providing Detailed Descriptions of Proposed Changes to Federal Tax Law and Accompanying Revenue Estimates
Publications - May 22, 2020 | Covid-19, the CARES Act and Tax Planning for Real Estate and Passthrough Businesses — Part II
Client Alert - May 1, 2020 | IRS Issues Notice Clarifying Expenses Funded with Proceeds of Small Business Administration Loans under Paycheck Protection Program
Publications - April 20, 2020 | COVID-19, the CARES Act and Tax Planning for Real Estate and Passthrough Businesses
Client Alert - March 26, 2020 | Senate Advances the CARES Act, the Largest Stimulus Package in History, to Stabilize the Economic Sector During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Client Alert - March 20, 2020 | Senate Majority Leader Introduces Emergency Stimulus Bill
Press Releases - November 20, 2019 | Gibson Dunn Promotes 13 Lawyers to Partnership
Client Alert - November 3, 2017 | House GOP Releases Major Tax Reform Bill
Client Alert - July 10, 2017 | California Supreme Court Upholds Los Angeles County’s Interpretation of Documentary Transfer Tax Act
Client Alert - March 31, 2016 | District Court Issues Troubling Decision in Sun Capital Case: Private Equity Funds Formed “Partnership-in-Fact” and Were Engaged in “Trade or Business,” Liable for Withdrawal Liability Obligations of Portfolio Company
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