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Michelle M. Hervey is a partner in BakerHostetler’s tax practice, advising national corporate clients and private equity sponsors on high‑value transactional tax matters. Hervey represents PLCs, PE funds, portfolio companies and privately held businesses across a wide range of industries. She is noted for her work on complex M&A and partnership transactions alongside sophisticated tax‑planning, private equity, venture capital, restructurings, and technical statutory analysis.
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Michelle Hervey’s practice is focused on the tax aspects of planning and structuring complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity issuances, private equity and venture capital investments, and restructurings.
She has extensive experience advising clients in connection with all facets of federal tax controversies, including IRS audits, IRS appeals and litigation. Michelle serves as co-leader of both the national Transactional Tax and national Tax Controversy and Litigation teams, leader of the Cleveland office's Tax Group and is a member of the Hiring and Recruitment Committee for the Cleveland office
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Key clients
- Private Equity and Manufacturing Client
- Consumer Goods Client
Work highlights
Advised a private‑equity seller group on the sale of a portfolio company, involving a multi‑step tax structure that included pre‑closing entity restructuring, blocker sales, management equity rollover, a partnership‑to‑corporate merger, and post‑closing incentive equity issuance.