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March 9, 2016


Michael Burwick, Esquire is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and attorney with more than twenty years of legal experience in corporate law, tax law and securities law.  The trifecta of corporate, tax and securities law encompasses a number of principals that are applicable to the success of any enterprise, public or private.  Looking at a business at any given stage of the company’s life cycle requires an examination of how the business was initiated, where it is currently and where it hopes to be in the future.  There are significant legal implications that are predicated on the answers to these questions and Michael prides himself on his ability to see the forest for the trees in counseling business clients on corporate, taxation and securities matters.

Education

2012 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M. in Taxation with multiple academic honors

2011 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M. in Securities Law and Financial Regulation with multiple academic honors including the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in the Field of Financial Accounting for Attorneys

1995 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, Juris Doctor, cum laude

1991 graduate of Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences, B.A. Sociology, magna cum laude with Distinction in the field of Sociology, Phi Beta Kappa, two-time winner of the Diedre H. Symington Sociology Prize

Legal Experience

Twenty years as a practicing attorney

Member of the Florida Bar since 1995

Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia since 1998

Candidate for Admission on Motion to the Massachusetts Bar 2016

Practice areas include corporate law with an emphasis on entity formation, corporate controls, compliance and governance, taxation law with an emphasis on tax minimization strategies, especially with respect to the tax efficient disposition of highly-appreciated assets, and all aspects of securities law including securities offerings, periodic reporting and the regulation of broker-dealers, investment advisers and other participants in the capital markets

Legal Work History:

TD Strategic LLC, Principal, 2014-Present

Day Pitney LLP, Counsel, 2013-2014

The Burwick Law Group, Managing Partner, 1998-2013

United States House of Representatives, Legal Counsel, 1996-1998

Office of the Attorney General, Assistant Attorney General for the State of Florida, 1995-1996

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