Michelle L. Kopnski

Ms. Kopnski, an attorney in the firm’s Business and Finance Department, concentrates her practice in the areas of corporate transactions, federal, state and local taxation and non-profit and tax-exempt entities.

Michelle’s practice also includes a concentration in complex corporate transactions including negotiation, analysis, documentation and implementation of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures involving public and privately held companies; creation and implementation of start-up and business development strategies for manufacturing and service organizations; design of partnership and limited liability company transactions; additional practice concentration in federal, state and local taxation; negotiation and management of corporate tax positions with IRS appellate officers; preparation and presentment of corporate tax petitions before commonwealth revenue and appellate boards; and formation and representation of non-profit and tax-exempt entities.

Michelle has experience handling extensive design, structuring and management of employee benefit programs including primary responsibility for coordination of benefit programs for a 20,000+ employee public company and its subsidiaries, which maintained nine separate employee benefit plans. She has also dealt with issues of ERISA and DOL compliance in employee plan administration.

Michelle received her undergraduate degree from West Virginia University, her law degree from West Virginia University College of Law and her LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law. Michelle is also licensed to practice in the State of West Virginia.

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