Former IRS exempt organizations official Mackenzie McNaughton joins Jones Day
Mackenzie McNaughton has joined Jones Day as of counsel in the Health Care & Life Sciences Practice in the Firm's Minneapolis Office.
Ms. McNaughton has 20 years of experience working with health care entities and other tax-exempt organizations, in both private practice and as in-house counsel at government regulatory agencies. She most recently served as Senior Technical Advisor for Exempt Organizations at the Internal Revenue Service where she advised the IRS Director of Exempt Organizations and Government Entities on day-to-day legal and technical issues impacting exempt organizations. In a previous stint at the IRS, she served as a tax law specialist clarifying questions of compliance and providing implementation guidance associated with the Affordable Care Act legislation.
"Mackenzie has a unique combination of technical legal and regulatory experience and served a key role in overseeing IRS tax enforcement initiatives," said Alexis Gilroy, co-leader of Jones Day's Health Care & Life Sciences Practice. "She is a valued addition to our growing number of health care and life sciences lawyers around the globe and will team up well with tax, M&A, and litigation colleagues to serve a variety of our clients."
At Jones Day, Ms. McNaughton joins a cross-disciplinary team of lawyers who advise life sciences and health care clients on their high-stakes tax, regulatory, controversy, and transaction issues. Jones Day represents pharmaceutical, biotech, digital health, and medical device companies at all stages of development, hospitals and academic medical centers, provider organizations, health care and private equity fund investors, and food and cosmetics companies.
"Mackenzie is well-respected here in the Twin Cities for her legal and regulatory work on legal issues that are critically important to health care organizations," said Brian Easley, Partner-in-Charge of Jones Day's Minneapolis Office. "She brings a broad spectrum of U.S. tax administration knowledge and experience to both our health care and other tax-exempt clients, and I look forward to her contributions to the Firm."
"Jones Day works with some of the most important health care and life sciences organizations in the world, providing their clients with access to some of the most accomplished lawyers in the health care industry," said Ms. McNaughton. "I am confident that my technical and policy experience gained at the IRS and in private practice will be a valuable addition to this global practice. I am delighted to join Jones Day."
