Jean Gordon Carter > McGuireWoods LLP > Raleigh, United States > Lawyer Profile
McGuireWoods LLP Offices
434 FAYETTEVILLE STREET
SUITE 2600
RALEIGH, NC 27601
NORTH CAROLINA
United States
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Jean Gordon Carter
Career
Acclaimed as one of North Carolina’s top tax and estate planning lawyers, Jean focuses her practice on estate planning and administration, tax-exempt organizations and charitable giving, advising her clients on a full range of wealth transfer planning issues, including gift, estate, and generation-skipping taxes, trusts, charitable giving, and transfer tax leveraging. She frequently works with families and nonprofit organizations to create workable plans necessary to advance their economic goals. Jean regularly is sought out to speak on key issues facing the industry, and has been quoted in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Reuters/CNBC and Best’s Review regarding tax and estate planning issues.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
McGuireWoods LLP acts on behalf of a range of prominent charitable organizations and nonprofits as well as numerous high-net-worth donors is active across Virginia and the Southeast. Gerald Thomas is an Atlanta-based expert in corporate transactions and restructurings and co-leads the department alongside the highly experienced Michele McKinnon, who works from Richmond and advises on governance, endowment and investment matters. Also key are Jean Gordon Carter in Raleigh, who is former co-chair of the firm’s private wealth services group, and Bradley Ridlehoover of Richmond, who works closely with McKinnon and is active in both contentious and non-contentious tax matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense