Russell practices in the areas of general business and corporate law, business planning, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, real estate finance, and taxation. He represents clients in a wide variety of industries including real estate (development, investment, management and leasing), manufacturing, retail, hotel, restaurant, residential and commercial construction, technology, professional practice groups and financial institutions.
Russell practices in the areas of general business and corporate law, business planning, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, real estate finance, and taxation. He represents clients in a wide variety of industries including real estate (development, investment, management and leasing), manufacturing, retail, hotel, restaurant, residential and commercial construction, technology, professional practice groups and financial institutions. Prior to establishing Cunningham Firm, LLC and co-founding Red Mountain Law Group, he worked with Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP in its Birmingham, Alabama office from 1999 until 2005.
He frequently speaks to business and professional groups on business law, business planning, real estate and taxation issues. He has also served as an entrepreneur mentor in the Alabama Launchpad Business Plan Competition.
Russell is an active member of the American Bar Association (Business Law Section, Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section, and Tax Section), Alabama State Bar (Business Law Section, Real Property, Probate and Trust Section, and Tax Section), and the Birmingham Bar Association (Business Law Section). Russell has been selected as a Mid-South Super Lawyer and has also achieved an AV Preeminent peer review rating by Martindale-Hubbell.
He attended Vanderbilt University from 1989 until 1991, and graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management in 1993. He is a 1998 honors graduate of The University of Alabama School of Law, where he was student editor of “The American Journal of Tax Policy.” He additionally holds an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law.
Corporate and M&A Work
Real Estate Investment and Acquisition / Disposition Work
Real Estate Finance