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WilmerHale Offices
60 STATE STREET
BOSTON, MA 02109
MASSACHUSETTS
United States
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Meghan Walsh
Work Department
Tax; Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits
Position
Counsel
Career
Meghan Walsh has experience with corporate transactions, including taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, and lending and financing transactions, as well as federal and state tax matters and controversies. Ms. Walsh also has experience with executive compensation matters, including equity compensation, incentive plans and golden parachute issues. Ms. Walsh’s practice also includes advising tax-exempt organizations, including with respect to obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt status.
During law school, Ms. Walsh was a summer clinical fellow in the Predatory Lending/Consumer Protection Clinic at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center. Ms. Walsh has also interned at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute’s CORI Project and at Suffolk County Juvenile Court.
Professional Activities
Ms. Walsh currently serves on the board of trustees of a private, non-profit high school.
Memberships
Bar Admissions:
Massachusetts
Education
Georgetown University Law Center , J.D. (2009)
Georgetown University Law Center , LLM (2009)
Brandeis University , B.A. (2006)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
WilmerHale’s non-contentious tax practice, primarily operating from the firm’s Boston office, handles the tax aspects of transactions in a broad range of sectors, with particular strength advising emerging companies in the tech and life sciences spaces. William Caporizzo, extensive experience handling the tax aspects of mergers, dispositions, and international restructurings, leads the team alongside executive compensation specialist Kimberly Wethly. Julie Rogers has considerable experience in taxable and tax-free mergers, spin-offs, bankruptcies, financing transactions, and state taxation. She has advised clients in the tech, life sciences, financial services, energy, and manufacturing industries, among others. Fred Adam in Palo Alto represents multinational corporations, growth-stage companies, investment funds, and fund portfolio companies on a broad range of tax issues. Meghan Walsh, promoted to partner in January 2024, plays a key role in the team, advising corporations, asset managers, and tax-exempt organizations. Matthew Schnall left the firm in July 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Education
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Industry focus > Native American law
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Government > State attorneys general
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- International trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government contracts
- Government > Government relations
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense