Julie McGuire graduated first in her class from both Carnegie Mellon
University (B.S. Management Science and Mathematics, 1980) and the Duquesne
University School of Law (J.D., 1985). She practices in the areas
of international law, international tax, corporate planning and
transactions, and intellectual property.
She has wide-ranging capabilities as a transactional and tax
attorney and a unique perspective made possible by experience as a Certified
Public Accountant and a Tax Counsel with Alcoa, where much of her work
involved foreign transactions. With a keen sensitivity to the
relationships of business facts to tax liabilities worldwide, she guides
clients through alternative strategies for accomplishing corporate
objectives, as well as offering tax analysis and first-rate judgment. She
regularly advises companies on choices of business entities available for
doing business internationally. Ms. McGuire has negotiated the
formation of U.S. and foreign corporations, partnerships and cost sharing
joint ventures as well as numerous business acquisitions and dispositions. In
addition, she has handled multi million dollar tax controversies, arguing at
the federal appeals level as well as in administrative hearings in a number
of states.
She has a growing reputation with clients and lawyers alike for
excellence in international business circles. Increasingly, she
serves as an arbitrator in complex international business cases. In
2003, the Internal Revenue Service and the American Arbitration Association
selected Ms. McGuire (along with Hull McGuire lawyer Albert D. Sturtevant in
Washington, D.C.) to serve as one of only 30 neutral arbitrators nationwide
in contingent liability tax shelter cases.
In law school, Ms. McGuire was Recent Decisions Editor of the Duquesne
Law Review. Other notable honors include American
Jurisprudence Awards for Excellent Achievement in the study of
Corporations and Estate Planning, the West Publishing Company Book Award,
the Allegheny County Bar Association Award, and the Duquesne University Law
School Scholarship for Academic Excellence.
From 1985 to 1992, Ms. McGuire was a General Tax Attorney with
Alcoa. At Alcoa, she provided executive management with business
planning support. Previously, she was an associate specializing
in the banking industry at S.R. Snodgrass & Co., a respected and
innovative regional CPA firm.
Ms. McGuire is a member of the District of Columbia,
Pennsylvania and New York bars. She is also affiliated with the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (Tax Section) and the
Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She is a
member of the American Bar Association, International Bar Association and
the Congress of Fellows of the Center for International Studies in Salzburg,
Austria. She is included in Who's Who In American Law.
Recent publications and presentations by Ms. McGuire include:
Boundary Flare-Up: The Supreme Court Revisits Constitutional Limitation on States’ Power to
Tax, January 14, 2008 (with Thomas C. Welshonce)
Legal
Aspects of Doing Business in North America, Center for
International Legal Studies (Yorkhill Law Publishing), June 2006 (with
Thomas C. Welshonce)
New
IRS Disclosure Requirements Carry Serious Penalties, The
Federal Lawyer, March/April 2005, at 22 (with Thomas C. Welshonce)
Tax
Shelters: New
IRS Disclosure Requirements Carry Serious Penalties
(available in searchable
PDF), Accounting and Financial Planning for Law Firms (American Lawyer
Media), February 2005 (with Thomas C. Welshonce)
Implementing
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (available online
and in PDF),
California Bar Journal, June 2003, at 10 (with Brian J. Kahle)
Final
Rules Adopted to Implement Title II of Sarbanes-Oxley Act, (available in
PDF, pages 1 and 2), The Lawyers Journal, May 30, 2003, at 10
(with Brian J. Kahle)
WTO
Rules U.S. in Violation of EU Trade Agreements; Appeals Filed
(available in searchable PDF),
The Legal Intelligencer, Feb. 22, 2000, at 11
United
States Violates Trade Agreements,
Int’l Business Law Consortium Newsletter, Feb. 2000
U.S.
Foreign Sales Corporation Challenged by European Union,
22 Pa. L. Wkly. 228, Feb. 15, 1999
U.S.
Foreign Sales Corporation ("FSC") Challenged by European
Union (available in searchable
PDF),
Pittsburgh Legal J., Nov. 16, 1998, at 1
Choice of Business Entity in Pennsylvania, National Business
Institute (May 12, 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) (Co-Presenter, Limited
Liability Companies and S Corporations)
Choice of Entity in Doing
Business Internationally, Int'l Business Law Consortium (Sept. 18, 1999,
Salzburg, Austria) (Co-Panelist, Choice of Entity in the United States).
Julie has participated in recent conferences of the International Business Law
Consortium in Cardiff, Buenos Aires, Salzburg, Austria and Madrid.
