Mike Legamaro
Morgan Lewis

Michael J. Legamaro is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Tax Practice. Mr. Legamaro's practice involves a range of tax and planning-oriented areas, principally for private wealth, including mergers and acquisitions, domestic and international tax and business planning, and foreign and domestic estate planning.

Mr. Legamaro assists public and private foreign and domestic corporations, partnerships, real estate investment trusts (REITs), and wealthy and entrepreneurial individuals and trusts in the analysis, structuring, and negotiation of corporate and real estate transactions, leveraged buyouts, reorganizations, debt restructurings, consolidations, and similar transactions, as well as planning for the creation, preservation, and transmission of wealth among generations. He also has a significant background in tax and business strategies and other acquisition/disposition transactions for real estate portfolios, owners, and developers, including multibillion-dollar REITs and real estate partnerships.

Mr. Legamaro also provides international income, capital, estate, inheritance, and gift-planning solutions to high-net-worth clients and families with assets outside of the country of their permanent residence. In that regard, he provides individually tailored solutions to the problems faced by international high-net-worth clients, whether clients are based in the United States, Europe, Latin America, or elsewhere. Mr. Legamaro frequently works with foreign attorneys and family advisors to assist in the formulation of an international strategy or the implementation of an international solution. These solutions involve the coordination of cross-border income, inheritance, and estate duties, and address concerns regarding the location of the client's assets or their family members. In each case, he works closely with banking relationship managers, financial planners, and attorneys to tailor solutions for a client's individual needs.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. Legamaro was a partner in the taxation practice of an international law firm.

Mr. Legamaro received his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law in 1986, where he was executive editor of the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology. He received his A.B., summa cum laude, from Washington University in St. Louis in 1983, where was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, and Mortar Board.

Mr. Legamaro is admitted to practice in Illinois.