Meet Tyler

Tyler Gilliam is a business and tax lawyer who works closely with domestic and international companies, business owners and individuals to find practical solutions to his client’s legal needs.

Tyler’s experience includes:

• • Business formation and entity structure planning, including drafting articles, bylaws and operating agreements
• • Tax planning for domestic and international companies
• • Mergers and acquisitions
• • Advising on name, image and likeness (NIL) matters, including forming NIL collectives and structuring NIL contracts
• • Assisting developers with South Carolina tax credits, including Brownfields, Abandoned Building and Textile Mill Revitalization credits
• • Providing economic development assistance to businesses relocating to or expanding in South Carolina related to Fees-in-Lieu of Tax (FILOTs), Special Source Revenue Credit Arrangements (SSRCs), Job Development Credits (JDCs) and Grants
• • Advising on LLC and partnership disputes, including derivative actions
• • Drafting and reviewing conservation easements

He received his Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation, with distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was awarded a full-tuition scholarship as a Graduate Tax Scholar. While in Washington, Tyler also served as a Judicial Extern to the Honorable Albert G. Lauber of the United States Tax Court. 

Tyler served as a guest lecturer on business law at the Charleston School of Law and the College of Charleston. He now resides in Pickens County, South Carolina and works in our Greenville office.

• Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M., Taxation, with distinction, 2018
• Charleston School of Law, J.D., summa cum laude, 2017
• College of Charleston, B.A., 2012

• South Carolina, 2017

• Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch Tax Law 2022
• Graduate Tax Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center
• Charleston School of Law Presidential Honors Scholar
• Charleston Law Review, Senior Articles Editor
• Charleston School of Law Moot Court Board

• South Carolina Bar, Business Section
• South Carolina Bar, Tax Section, General Council Member (2020-Present)
• Charleston Tax Council, President (2020-2021), Treasurer (2019-2020)
• Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce Leadership Discovery Program, Class of 2018

• “Navigating the Name, Image, and Likeness Rules,” Geneva Group International Southeast Group Webinar, February 16, 2022
• “Guide to NIL in South Carolina for Athletes and Businesses,” HSB Blog, July 8, 2021
• “Tax Deadline Updates for Opportunity Zone Investments,” HSB Blog, April 14, 2020
• "COVID-19 – Does Your Business Interruption Insurance Apply?," HSB Blog, March 20, 2020
• "Final Opportunity Zone Regulations - What Investors Need to Know," HSB Blog, February 13, 2020
• “The Re-Emergence of the C-Corporation,” HSB 2019 Corporate Law for Accountants Seminar Series
• “Opportunity Zones - Understanding the Operational Requirements,” HSB 2019 Corporate Law for Accountants Seminar Series
• "Big Changes in the Area of Conservation Easements Following Recent Tax Court Opinion," HSB Blog, December 31, 2018
• "Demystifying I.R.C. Section 199A," HSB 2018 Corporate Law for Accountants Seminar Series