Buddy Sanders

Practice Areas

Buddy Sanders concentrates his practice on business tax planning, mergers and acquisitions and tax controversy/disputes, including worker misclassification issues. He has vast experience representing clients in the structuring and negotiating through numerous mergers and acquisitions ranging from family business deals to large billion dollar deals, including pre-transaction restructurings relating thereto, to minimize tax costs and maximize the tax benefit. Drawing on years of service at the Internal Revenue Service Office of Chief Counsel, Buddy also has valuable experience defending clients on various tax dispute matters at all stages of the process, ranging from the start of a tax audit up through tax litigation before the U.S. Tax Court. Recent tax dispute successes focused on worker classification issues.

Professional Memberships

Member, State Bar of Texas

Past-Chair, Houston Bar Association (Tax Section)

Member, Texas Bar Foundation

Board Member, Texas-Federal Tax Institute

Committee Vice Chair, State Bar of Texas (Tax Section)

Personal

J.D., cum laude, Baylor University School of Law, 1995, Notes and Comments Editor, Baylor Law Review.

M.Acc., Accounting, with distinction, Brigham Young University, 1992

B.S., Accounting, Brigham Young University, 1992