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McGuireWoods LLP Offices

FIFTH THIRD CENTER
201 N TRYON ST, STE. 3000
CHARLOTTE, NC 28202
NORTH CAROLINA
United States
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Michele McKinnon

Position
The chair of McGuireWoods’ nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations practice team, Michele routinely represents many public charities, major colleges and universities, supporting organizations, large private foundations, and charitable trusts on a variety of federal tax and governance matters. She concentrates much of her time on structuring planned gifts to charitable organizations, including the use of charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, charitable gift annuities and conservation easements. Michele’s work also focuses on estate planning and estate and trust administration, handling the administration of large complex estates, fiduciary income tax matters, fiduciary litigation, and risk management for corporate trust departments. A Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Michele currently serves as Chair of its Charitable Planning & Exempt Organizations Committee and previously served as its Virginia State Chair.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Industry focus > Education
Government investigations, Title IV compliance, civil rights and education-related labor and employment matters, covering faculty members and student-athletes are some of the core areas of practice of the broad education group at McGuireWoods LLP. The firm routinely assists higher education institutions, K-12 schools, academic medical centers but also presidents and coaches, especially is contract negotiations. Washington DC-based Farnaz Thompson leads the department and handles litigation and investigations before federal agencies. Another highlighted contact is Chicago-based Sarah Wake, who handles both contentious and advisory mandates, and Virginia-based Michele McKinnon, who specializes in assisting universities and their affiliated foundations on tax and planned giving matters. Insurance recovery expert Shelby Guilbert in Atlanta is also noted.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense