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Essence Renee McGill
Associate
Boston
With a highly varied business law practice, Essence McGill advises public and private company clients on numerous transactional and organizational issues. Her transactional work involves business combinations (including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, asset purchases and joint ventures) and corporate finance (such as venture capital financings, and secured and unsecured debt financings).
Essence also has a substantial general corporate practice. She advises company clients on their formation, capitalization, compliance with securities and banking laws, and reorganization. Her general corporate work also extends to tax-exempt organizations.
Before joining Foley Hoag in 2004, Essence worked in the corporate practice of an international law firm's New York, N.Y. and Moscow, Russia offices. While there she concentrated on domestic and international mergers & acquisitions, banking and bank regulatory matters, and securities regulation and compliance. She also advised on the formation of investment funds (including off-shore entities), and advised both offshore entities and not-for-profit organizations on transactional and general corporate matters.
During law school, she worked as a summer associate and law clerk at several firms, and as a volunteer intern and research fellow at the Columbia Law School Public Interest Law Initiative in Transitional Societies. Prior to graduate school, she spent one year as a legal assistant working on various commercial litigation matters.
Bars and Court Admissions
Massachusetts
New York
District of Columbia
professional / civic involvement
Boston Bar Association, Member; Public Interest Leadership Program (2005-2006)
Massachusetts Black Women Attorneys, Vice President
American Bar Association, Member; Business Law Section, Member
Massachusetts Bar Association, Member
New York State Bar Association, Member
Women's Bar of Massachusetts, Member; Women of Color Committee, Member
Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association, Member
Big Sister Organization of Greater Boston Board of Directors, Member
Boston Dance Alliance Board of Directors, Member
Celebrity Series Board of Overseers, Member
Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, Business on Board Program (2005-2006)
Harvard Club of Boston Board of Governors, Member; Activities Committee, Chair; Community Services and Marketing & Membership Committees, Member; Alumni Interviewer
Harvard Club of New York, Member; Program Committee (2003-2004); Alumni Interviewer (1999-2004)
The Partnership, Boston Fellows Program (2007)
Volunteer Mentor:
- Boston Lawyers Group
- Radcliffe Mentor Program
- Big Sister for a Day Program
Foley Hoag Public Service Programs
- Boston Partners in Education - Power Lunch Program
- Citizens Schools - 8th Grade Academy Program
Cambridge Democratic Party - Ward 11 Committee Member
publications
Note, The Legal Profession: Comparing Russia and Belarus, VOL. 6 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF EAST EUROPEAN LAW
Master's Thesis, AFROSLAVS: Tracing the Role and Influence of African-Americans in the Communist Party Movement - Encounters in the United States and Russia.
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