Janelle N. Darnell

Janelle is an associate in the business tax group of McGuireWoods. Her practice focuses on a broad range of transactional tax matters, including mergers, joint ventures, acquisitions, divestitures, and restructurings, with a particular focus on taxable and tax-free reorganizations, spin-offs, liquidations and redemptions, and cross-border restructuring transactions.

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She also has experience with corporate, partnership, and international tax planning.

Practices

Admissions

District of Columbia
Illinois

Recognition

Nolan Fellow, American Bar Association Section of Taxation, 2022-2023

Insights

Author, Build Back Better Act, McGuireWoods Legal Insights, September 24, 2021
Author, Business Tax Relief in the CARES Act, McGuireWoods Legal Insights, March 27, 2020
Co-author, Reorganizing your EIN in an F Reorganization, J. OF CORP. TAX, Vol. 45. No. 4, July/August 2018

Education

Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, LLM, Taxation, with Honors, Dean's List, 2016
University of San Diego School of Law, JD, Chief Student Comment Editor, San Diego International Law Journal, 2015
San Diego State University, MBA, Accountancy, 2013
California Polytechnic State University, BA, Political Science, 2008

Affiliations

Member, American Bar Association, Tax Section

Member, District of Columbia Bar Association, Tax Section

Member, Illinois Bar Association

Events

Co-lead, "Important Developments in Federal Income Taxation of S Corporations," American Bar Association Tax Section: Annual Fall Meeting, October 13-15, 2022

Janelle N. Darnell Associate