Christine N. Townsend

Overview

Christine N. Townsend is Of Counsel in the Taxation and Transactions practice groups at McCarthy Lebit. She represents corporate and individual clients in a wide range of transactional matters, with a primary focus on mergers and acquisitions, business structuring, and tax planning. Leveraging her diverse legal background and tax experience, Christine provides clients with strategic, business-focused solutions that minimize risk and maximize value.

She advises businesses and individuals navigating complex M&A transactions, including buying, selling, reorganizing, and merging entities. Christine provides comprehensive legal support throughout the M&A process, assisting clients with due diligence, structuring deals, securing financing, negotiating terms, and drafting key transactional documents.

Her legal experience is complemented by her time working in creditors' rights law before graduating from law school, where she gained hands-on experience drafting complaints, motions, and other litigation-related documents. During law school, she participated in New England Law | Boston’s Tax Clinic at the Appellate Tax Board of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where she wrote an appellate brief on the taxability of telecommunications services. She also interned with The Nexxus Group, where she analyzed Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Section 2-316A and its impact on implied warranties of merchantability in the sale of goods and services.

Christine obtained a bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware where she double majored in history and criminal justice with a concentration in law and society. She attended law school at New England Law in Boston where she focused on business courses, including tax, wills, trusts and estates, uniform commercial code sales and secured transactions, real estate, contracts drafting, and personal income tax. Upon receiving her J.D., she went on to earn her LL.M in Taxation from Boston University School of Law and became a tax specialist.

Prior to joining the firm, Christine spent four years at a Big Four accounting firm, where she advanced from tax associate to tax manager in the M&A tax group. She then continued her career as a tax manager at another leading global professional services firm, focusing on M&A tax strategy.

*Licensed only in Massachusetts