Robert O. O’Bannon

Director

Robert O. O’Bannon is a Director who represents business clients in a variety of transactional matters with an emphasis on taxation and wealth planning issues for both businesses and individuals.

Contact

Robert O. O’Bannon
Director

roobannon@phillipsmurrah.com

Oklahoma City
405.235.4100 Main
405.552.2483 Direct
405.235.4133 Fax

Practice Areas

Business Law
Oil and Natural Gas Transactions
Tax Controversy
Mergers and Acquisitions
Private Wealth, Estate Planning and Business Succession
Tax Law

Profile

BIOGRAPHY

Robert O’Bannon is a Director and member of the Firm’s Tax, Trusts and Estate Planning, Energy and Natural Resources and Corporate Law Practice Groups. He represents high net worth individuals and privately held companies in a wide range of transactional matters.

Robert is a successful tax attorney with extensive experience in all areas of corporate and tax law, including complex mergers and acquisitions, tax-free reorganizations and financing transactions for a variety of clients. His representation includes the structuring and federal and state tax implications of financing transactions through debt placement, and private placement offerings.

Robert was a member of the Phi Delta Phi honorary fraternity, while in law school. Born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Robert lives in Edmond, Oklahoma.

EDUCATION

University of Oklahoma (B.A., 1976)
Oklahoma City University (J.D., 1979)
Boston University (LL.M., Taxation, 1980)

ADMISSIONS

1979, Oklahoma
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Oklahoma
U.S. District Court, Western District of Oklahoma
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Oklahoma
U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Oklahoma Bar Association
Oklahoma County Bar Association
American Bar Association
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Oklahoma Society of Certified Public Accountants

Experience

EXPERIENCE

Huber $200 million financing transaction in southern Oklahoma
Multiple private placement transactions for privately held oil and gas companies
Represented privately-held companies in mergers and acquisitions of oil and gas properties and aggregate business
W.H. Braum, Inc. v. Internal Revenue Service (U.S. Tax Court): Successfully represented Braum in a complex tax case
Davenport v. Internal Revenue Service (U.S. Federal District Court): Successfully represented Davenport in a real estate valuation case
Dolese v. Oklahoma Tax Commission: Successfully represented Dolese in a sales tax case involving quarries and sand plants

EXPERTISE

Complex mergers and acquisitions
Tax-free reorganizations
Financing transactions for a variety of privately held companies

Recognition

RECOGNITION

Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent™
Best Lawyers®: Oil and Gas Law (2021)
Best Lawyers®: Private Funds/Hedge Fund Laws (2020-present)
Best Lawyers®: Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships) (2018-present)
Best Lawyers®: Tax Law (2008-present)
Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters: Tax, Business/Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions (2006, 2010)
405 Magazine Top Attorney in Business Law, Tax Law (2020-2021)

Community

Board of Directors - Dolese Bros. Co. (2013-Present)

Publications

Robert O. O’Bannon

Director

BIOGRAPHY

EDUCATION

ADMISSIONS

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

EXPERIENCE

EXPERTISE

RECOGNITION

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