Kilpatrick Adds Leading Tax Partner to New York Office

NEW YORK (SEPTEMBER 29) – Kilpatrick announced today that Michele Alexander has joined the New York office as a partner on the firm’s nationally recognized Employee Benefits & Tax Team.

Ms. Alexander, who joins Kilpatrick partner Jamie Null as Co-Chair of the firm’s Federal Tax Practice, is a highly accomplished transactional tax lawyer with more than 30 years of experience advising on a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, fund formations, capital markets and securities offerings, financings, joint ventures, and restructurings, with a dedicated focus on their tax implications. She employs her extensive knowledge and experience to help clients navigate complex tax issues that affect their bottom line and explain them in an easy-to-understand manner.

Ms. Alexander’s experience advising clients spans across industries, allowing her to develop a focus in several areas that complement the firm’s services, including in the healthcare, technology, media, entertainment, energy and renewables, and infrastructure sectors. Clients count on Ms. Alexander for her meticulousness, responsiveness, and practical solutions for their most challenging issues. She was drawn to tax law because of how it is woven into the fabric of nearly every issue and business encounter.

Michele partners seamlessly with deal teams and business lawyers, providing tax advice that is timely, comprehensive, and solutions oriented,” said Lois Colbert and Sterling Perkinson, Co-Leaders of Kilpatrick’s Employee Benefits & Tax Team. “This approach mirrors the Firm’s collaborative client service model and further strengthens the tax practice’s role as a strategic partner on transactions. We welcome Michele to Kilpatrick.

Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Alexander was a partner in the New York City office of a full-service national business law firm, where she was co-chair of its Tax Practice Group.

As a transactional tax partner who has spent my entire career in the New York market, I look forward to offering my expertise and relationships with transactional lawyers, deal professionals, and clients in one of the most competitive legal environments,” said Ms. Alexander. “Kilpatrick has an outstanding reputation in high‑stakes transactions, and I am excited to work with the Firm’s impressive list of diverse clients worldwide.

Ms. Alexander was recognized as a New York “Super Lawyer” in 2026 and the seven years immediately preceding for Tax Law by Super Lawyers magazine. She was named a LawDragon for Tax Law, a “Notable Practitioner” by IFLR1000, and is recommended by Legal 500 US. Ms. Alexander was the recipient of the “Go-To Thought Leadership” Award for Tax Law in 2018 by the National Law Review.

Ms. Alexander earned her J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A., magna cum laude, from The College of New Jersey. She is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.

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