Michele Alexander is Co-Chair of the firm’s Federal Tax Practice. She 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. Michele 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.
Michele’s experience advising clients spans across industries and working closely with clients has allowed her to develop a focus in several areas that complement the firm’s services. She works closely with companies in the healthcare, technology, media, entertainment, energy and renewables, and infrastructure sectors, among others. Clients count on Michele for her meticulousness and responsiveness. Michele’s ultimate goal is to propose practical solutions that will help solve her clients’ issues.
Michele was drawn to tax law because of how it is woven into the fabric of nearly every issue a business client encounters. Her experience is evident in how she approaches any transactional matter that arises, providing tailored counsel on the intricacies of related tax issues.
Prior to joining the firm, Michele 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.
Michele has spent her entire legal career in New York where she has also advised on real estate investment trusts including guiding many international clients on inbound U.S. real estate investments. She is a frequent author on tax and other topics of interest to investors.
Michele 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 recognized by LawDragon in its inaugural 2025 list and again in 2026 for Tax Law. Michele has also been ranked a “Notable Practitioner” by IFLR1000 and recommended by Legal 500 US. She was listed in Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC’s IFLR1000 Financial & Corporate Guide in 2019 and 2020. Michele is recipient of the “Go-To Thought Leadership” Award for Tax Law in 2018 by the National Law Review.
Experience
*Represented a media and entertainment company in the pre-transaction restructuring and ultimate disposition of its stake in an iconic entertainment brand.
*Represented a leading toiletries brand in a strategic joint venture with a private equity firm focused on consumer brands.
*Represented numerous private equity firms and their portfolio companies on both initial and add-on acquisitions as well as divestments.
*Represented private equity sponsor in formation of private real estate investment trusts.
*Represented purchaser in the acquisition and roll-up of real estate investment trusts.
*Represented non-U.S. corporation in proposed “going public” de-SPAC transaction.
*Advised non-U.S. clients on inbound investments and structuring of U.S. subsidiaries.
*Represented a national optometric practice in connection with several practices across the United States.
*Represented an international financing institution in a $2.8 billion financing facility, prepackaged Chapter 11 restructuring transaction as agent to revolving debtor-in-possession (DIP) lenders.
*Served as underwriters counsel for a national electric company in offering of $1.1 billion of mortgage bonds.
*Represented lead arranger and revolving administrative agent for an international financing institution in a $1.7 billion new financing which included immediate access to $650 million of financing comprised of $550 million under a term loan credit facility and $100 million under a letter of credit facility.
*Represented a financial investor in a $2.1 billion bank merger.
*Represented an energy growth company in its acquisition of 100 percent of the equity interests in a parallel entity and certain of its affiliated entities for $358 million, including a 42,000 bpd refinery, a marine terminal, and associated logistical system in Washington.
*Represented two significant energy companies in a $1.3 billion project financing and equity arrangements for the construction of a designated energy project, a 1,182 megawatt combined cycle natural gas electric generating facility located in Ohio.
*Represented lead arranger for a global investment bank in the $4.65 billion financing of an all-stock combination, consisting of a $2.26 billion senior secured term loan facility, a $1.0 billion senior secured revolving credit facility and a $1.39 billion senior secured letter of credit facility.
*Experience gained by attorney prior to joining Kilpatrick
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Georgetown University Law Center J.D. (1995) cum laude
The College of New Jersey J.D. (1992) magna cum laude
New Jersey (1995)
New York (1996)
New York City Tax Club, President
New York State Bar Association, Tax Section, Member
Solving Kids Cancer, Executive Board Member
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