Michele Alexander

Michele J. Alexander

Partner, Tax Practice Group Co-Chair
Tax attorney Michele Alexander employs her extensive knowledge and experience to help clients navigate complex tax issues that affect their bottom line. With a focus on private equity and hedge funds and similar investment vehicles, Michele is able to take her clients’ multifaceted fund and tax matters, determine the best options and explain the process in an easy-to-understand manner.

Over the course of 25 years, Michele has firmly established herself as an effective and efficient transactional tax lawyer who advises on a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, fund formations, capital markets and securities offerings, financings, joint ventures and restructurings, with a dedicated focus on their tax implications.

Michele’s experience advising clients spans across industries, and working closely with clients has allowed her to develop a focus in several areas that complement the services our corporate department offers. She guides healthcare clients and investors through sales and acquisitions of healthcare facilities, and works with companies in the technology, media, entertainment, energy and renewables, and infrastructure sectors, among others.

Michele was drawn to tax law because of how it is woven into the fabric of nearly every issue a business client encounters. This experience is evident in how she approaches any transactional matter that arises, providing tailored counsel on the intricacies of related tax issues.

Michele, who has spent her entire legal career in New York, also advises on real estate investment trusts, including guiding many international clients on inbound U.S. real estate investments. She is a frequent author on tax and other topics of interest to investors.

Clients count on Michele for her meticulousness and responsiveness. Michele’s ultimate goal is to propose practical solutions that will help solve her clients’ issues.

Experience
  • Represented global network of businesses in a public offering of $650 million of its notes
  • Represented an international financing institution in a $2.8 billion financing facility, prepackaged Chapter 11 restructuring transaction as agent to revolving debtor-in-possession (DIP) lenders
Credentials

Education

  • Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1995, cum laude
  • The College of New Jersey, B.A., 1992, magna cum laude

Bar Admissions

  • New York
  • New Jersey
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