Michael E. Mooney

Michael Mooney, chairman of Nutter, focuses his practice on tax and business, representing corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies in a broad array of domestic and international tax and business transactions, including complex business combinations and divestitures.

Michael also works frequently with businesses to reorganize into more tax-efficient structures and achieve intergenerational transfers at minimal tax cost. Michael also handles tax controversies before the Internal Revenue Service and state tax authorities.

Michael is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, a member of the Boston Tax Forum, and a member of the Board of Editors of Accounting and Financial Planning for Law Firms. He served as vice president, executive director and member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Tax Institute of New England Inc. from 1989 to 2011. He writes and speaks frequently on topics related to taxation and executive compensation.

Active in many business, civic and charitable organizations in Greater Boston, Michael is a director of Jobs for Massachusetts, an executive leadership organization of CEO’s from prominent Boston businesses, a trustee of Lesley University, a director of the Lincoln and Therese Filene Foundation, a director of A Better City, Inc., where he served as chair of the Board from 2006-2010, and a former director of Music Lives. He is also a director of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley, where he was the founding co-chair of the United Way Lawyers Leadership Breakfast and currently serves as a member of the organization’s Legal Advisory Council. Michael is a member of the Board of Overseers of the New England Aquarium, a member of the Business Advisory Council of Boston College Law School, and a member of the Chief Executives Club of Boston. Michael is a member and vice chair of the Boston Green Ribbon Commission, a Commission formed to convene leaders from Boston’s key sectors to support the outcomes of the city’s Climate Action Plan. He has served as legal counsel to the USS Constitution Bicentennial Salute, Inc. and currently serves as legal counsel to and Clerk of Sail Boston, Inc. For more than ten years Michael served as a co-chair of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund Annual Dinner, sponsored by Catholic Charities. He is the founding chairman of the Boston Bar Association Summer Jobs Program, served as chair of the 2003 Law Day Dinner Steering Committee and as co-chair of the Association’s 2008 Diversity and Leadership Task Force, and currently is serving as co-chair of the Boston Bar Foundation Society of Fellows.