Lawyers / Professionals

 
Kelly L. Hellmuth       
Associate
One James Center
901 East Cary Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219-4030
T: 804.775.1164
F: 804.698.2029
khellmuth@mcguirewoods.com
 

Ms. Hellmuth focuses on nonprofit and charitable advisory services, private wealth services, and trusts and estates. She represents charities, foundations, and charitable trusts in obtaining exemption from federal income tax and assists tax-exempt organizations in compliance matters, including governance issues, private benefit, self-dealing, excess benefit transactions, and unrelated business taxable income. Her work also includes charitable gift planning, including through the use of charitable trusts, conservation easements, and estate planning documents.


Practices & Industries
Previous Experience
  • Associate, Moore & Lee, LLP, McLean, Virginia, 2004-2006
  • Legislative Assistant, U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman E. Clay Shaw, Jr., Washington, D.C., 2003-2004

Publications
  • Treatise, "Economic Crisis? Technology Transfer to the Rescue" (co-authored with Milt Cerny), Taxation of Exempts, May/June 2010
  • Trust Administration and Estate Planning, (co-authored with Dana G. Fitzsimons Jr.), American Bankers Association, 2009 Revisions

Professional Affiliations
  • Virginia Gift Planning Council
  • Planned Giving Advisory Committee, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
  • American Bar Association
    • Real Property, Probate & Trust Section
  • Virginia Bar Association
    • Trusts & Estates Section
  • Virginia State Bar

Civic Affiliations
  • Performing Member, Richmond Symphony Chorus
 

EDUCATION

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, J.D., 2003

  • Articles Editor, Virginia Journal of Law & Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, S.B., Chemical Engineering, 2000

 
 

ADMITTED

Virginia 2003

District of Columbia 2006

California 2007

 

PLACE OF BIRTH

Gainesville, Florida