Bio

Gary Michel is a Partner and Chair of the Tax Department. With more than 40 years of tax and corporate law experience, Gary serves as a business advisor and tax strategist to his clients who are generally privately owned businesses with a strong entrepreneurial spirit demanding effective and creative legal judgment over a wide area of legal terrain. Gary chairs the firm’s Tax Department, and is an active participant in the Wealth Transfer Planning and the Business Corporate Transactional Departments. In these capacities, he counsels individuals, families and business enterprises of all stripes in sophisticated business transactions, especially the tax issues arising from them. Gary has spoken to accounting and legal organizations on a variety of tax topics such as like-kind exchanges, equity compensation, partnership allocations and tax patents. He has authored numerous articles on tax planning strategies concerning equity compensation and carried interests, earnouts, success-based fees and property tax assessments.