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Phone

Direct (603) 334-6938
Fax (603) 436-5672

Email

Chuck.Leahy@McLane.com

Office

100 Market St., Suite 301
Portsmouth, NH 03801

Practice/Industry Groups

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Charles F. Leahy
Attorney

Chuck advises clients on tax, financial and estate planning matters, including long-term asset preservation and growth. His extensive experience also includes general business practice, corporate and partnership tax planning and mergers and acquisitions.

Department

Areas of Practice

  • Acquisitions, Divestitures and Mergers
  • Business Succession Planning
  • Corporate, Partnership and LLC Tax and Business Planning
  • Federal Income, Estate and Gift Taxation
  • Professional Fiduciary and Trustee Services
  • Wealth Management

Representative Clients & Work

Chuck represents individuals, business owners; trustees and other fiduciaries

Admissions

State Courts of New Hampshire; United States Supreme Court; First Circuit Court of Appeals; Federal District Court for the District of New Hampshire; United States Tax Court

Professional & Association Memberships

New Hampshire Bar Association; Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC); Life Member of the American Law Institute

Recognition

  • AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
  • Cited in The Best Lawyers in America 2005-2006 for trusts and estates, corporate, mergers and acquisitions and securities law

Community Involvement

  • Investment Committee of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
  • Adjunct Professor of Business Planning, University of Maine School of Law
  • Member Board of Governors and President of New Hampshire Public Television, 1986-1995
  • New Hampshire Supreme Court Long Range Planning Commission, Chair, 1988-1990

Career

  • Legislative Counsel to Honorable Walter Peterson, Governor of New Hampshire, in 1971-1972
  • Harvard Law School, J.D. 1963
  • Yale University, B.A. 1957

Member

  • Investment Committee of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation,
  • Adjunct Professor of Business Planning, University of Maine School of Law
  • Member Board of Governors and President of New Hampshire Public Television, 1986-1995
  • New Hampshire Supreme Court Long Range Planning Commission, Chair, 1988-1990

Recent Publications and Lectures

  • "Investing for Non-Profits", The New Hampshire Bar Journal Community Activities.