Profile: William S McKee

Corporate Tax

Biography: Corporate Tax

Mr McKee is one of the founding partners of McKee Nelson. His practice encompasses all areas of federal taxation, with a special emphasis on partnership taxation. Mr McKee served as tax legislative counsel at the US Treasury Department from 1981 to 1983.

He is a member of the American Law Institute, the American College of Tax Counsel and the National Institute for Tax Professionals. Mr McKee was a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law from 1969 to 1981. He also was a visiting professor in the graduate tax programme at the New York University School of Law from 1975 to 1977.

He is co-author of the treatise Federal Taxation of Partnerships and Partners (Warren, Gorham & Lamont, 3rd edition, 1997), and also co-authored Federal Taxation of Partnerships and Partners: Structuring and Drafting Agreements (Warren, Gorham & Lamont, 2nd edition, 1993). Mr McKee is a frequent speaker at seminars around the country on the subject of partnership taxation and has written numerous articles. A 1966 cum laude graduate of Yale University, Mr McKee received a JD, magna cum laude, in 1969 from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Mr McKee has been named one of the leading practitioners in the field of taxation by Chambers Global - The World's Leading Lawyers for Business since 2000 and by Chambers USA - America's Leading Lawyers for Business since 2002. Mr McKee is featured in the Guide to the World's Leading Tax Advisers, and he has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for the past 20 years.