Margaret C. Wilson is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s New York office. She focuses her practice on state and local taxation.
Margaret represents clients in state and local tax controversies, multistate tax planning, and the state and local tax aspects of reorganizations and M&A. Her tax controversy work extends to the administrative, trial and appellate levels. Margaret’s tax planning and advisory work includes multistate nexus reviews, unitary business studies, tax minimization analyses and general transactional advice.
Margaret is a co-author of the Sales Tax and Corporation Business Tax chapters of the New Jersey Tax Handbook and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Multistate Taxation and Incentives. She has published articles in that publication, as well as State Tax Notes, The Tax Lawyer (ABA), The State and Local Tax Lawyer (ABA), the Multistate Tax Report (BNA) and The Tax Executive (TEI), among others. Margaret frequently speaks on taxation topics for groups such as the Institute for Professionals in Taxation, the Council on State Taxation, the Tax Executives Institute, the New Jersey State Bar Association and various CPA organizations.
Margaret is on the Board of Governors of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation. She is a past Chair of the Taxation Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, and a past Vice-Chair of the ABA and Local Tax Committee. She is also a Taxation Committee member for the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce.
Margaret is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York.
Education
- University of Michigan Law School, J.D. (cum laude), 1994
- New York University School of Law, LL.M., 2002
- University of Michigan, B.A. (cum laude), 1991
