Lawyers / Professionals

Mr. McElroy has more than 20 years of experience in advising public corporations and private companies on tax matters related to reorganizations, mergers, business acquisitions, and capital financing. He routinely advises emerging growth and middle market companies in structuring, negotiating and closing tax-advantaged investment and acquisition transactions, including private equity and mezzanine debt financings, joint ventures, carried interests, and other contingent or convertible equity rights. Recent transactions involved diverse industries, including insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, technology and telecommunications, real estate, oil and gas, commodity trading, and retail.

Having previously served as tax counsel of a Fortune 100 multinational corporation, Mr. McElroy has substantial experience in tax-free restructurings and international transactions, including cross-border acquisitions, foreign fund investments, and debt/equity financings. His responsibilities included international operations in the United States, Europe and South America.

He began his career as a certified public accountant with a national accounting firm, where he served in the firm's Washington office and later assumed responsibility for tax planning, tax audit and assurance on several Fortune 500 multinational companies and a number of large, privately held national and international businesses. He previously served as chair of the International Section of the Virginia State Bar and was appointed to the board of directors for the AICPA's International Tax Committee. He is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. He also is an adjunct professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he teaches "Taxation of Reorganizations" and "Partnership Taxation" in the Masters in Taxation program. Mr. McElroy lectures frequently on tax matters, including mergers, acquisitions, partnerships and international transactions.