Elise J. McGee advises high-net-worth individuals and business owners on all aspects of wealth-transfer planning, including estate and trust administration, leveraged wealth-transfer techniques, tax matters, cryptocurrency and QSBS planning, real estate transactions and closely held business matters. Elise has extensive experience working with owners of closely held businesses to develop governance and succession plans, and on corporate, tax and compliance matters relating to those businesses.

Elise specializes in the formation and operation of private trust companies, and has advised clients on these structures in multiple jurisdictions. Elise has worked with state regulators to develop customized private trust company structures for clients, including for international families. Most recently, she co-drafted Wyoming’s 2019 trust company legislation including 2021 legislative updates. Elise has analyzed SEC and regulatory compliance issues facing private trust companies, and has helped clients develop policies and procedures for their private trust companies. She also advises clients on the litigation and regulatory risks facing private trust companies and their decision-makers.

Elise works with clients, including registered investment advisers and multi-family offices, to establish and transition trusteeship to retail trust companies. She also advises retail trust companies on cryptocurrency custody matters. She helps clients structure the multi-jurisdictional relationships between trust companies, family offices and closely held businesses.

Elise speaks frequently on the subject of estate planning, state income tax strategies, digital assets and trust companies. She has lectured at the University of Wyoming College of Law and serves on the Executive Committee of the Chicago Bar Association Trust Law Committee.

While in law school, Elise was an executive editor for The Michigan Journal of Race & Law. Prior to law school, she worked as a senior research analyst for Lexecon, where she performed research and statistical analyses focusing on the application of economics to litigation.

Leigh-Alexandra Basha focuses her practice on domestic and international tax and estate planning. She counsels an affluent international client base on a wide range of sophisticated matters, including estate and trust administration, family wealth preservation, foreign trust planning, tax compliance, as well as business succession, expatriation, and pre-immigration planning. Leigh is head of the firm’s Washington, DC, Private Client Practice Group.

Leigh was an adjunct professor of wills, trusts and estates at American University Washington College of Law. She lectures and has written extensively about international tax and estate planning issues, and is editor of A Guide to International Estate Planning: Drafting, Compliance, and Administration Strategies, Second Edition.

Elise J. McGee advises high-net-worth individuals and business owners on all aspects of wealth-transfer planning, including estate and trust administration, leveraged wealth-transfer techniques, tax matters, cryptocurrency and QSBS planning, real estate transactions and closely held business matters. Elise has extensive experience working with owners of closely held businesses to develop governance and succession plans, and on corporate, tax and compliance matters relating to those businesses.

Elise specializes in the formation and operation of private trust companies, and has advised clients on these structures in multiple jurisdictions. Elise has worked with state regulators to develop customized private trust company structures for clients, including for international families. Most recently, she co-drafted Wyoming’s 2019 trust company legislation including 2021 legislative updates. Elise has analyzed SEC and regulatory compliance issues facing private trust companies, and has helped clients develop policies and procedures for their private trust companies. She also advises clients on the litigation and regulatory risks facing private trust companies and their decision-makers.

Elise works with clients, including registered investment advisers and multi-family offices, to establish and transition trusteeship to retail trust companies. She also advises retail trust companies on cryptocurrency custody matters. She helps clients structure the multi-jurisdictional relationships between trust companies, family offices and closely held businesses.

Elise speaks frequently on the subject of estate planning, state income tax strategies, digital assets and trust companies. She has lectured at the University of Wyoming College of Law and serves on the Executive Committee of the Chicago Bar Association Trust Law Committee.

While in law school, Elise was an executive editor for The Michigan Journal of Race & Law. Prior to law school, she worked as a senior research analyst for Lexecon, where she performed research and statistical analyses focusing on the application of economics to litigation.

Leads McDermott’s AdTech and Data Monetization group, combining practical business advice with deep technical experience

Advises on cutting edge issues spanning AI, digital health, connected vehicles, fintech, biometrics, advertising, and other complex topics

Draws on Chief Privacy Officer secondment to design and operationalize global privacy programs, including a library of easy-to-implement materials

Dr. Natallia Karniyevich has more than a decade of experience in European cybersecurity and data protection law and advises multinational companies on complex cybersecurity matters. She helps clients navigate rapid technological change and an increasingly demanding regulatory environment.

Natallia focuses on European cybersecurity regulation and resilience. She supports clients across the full cybersecurity lifecycle – from designing and implementing cybersecurity and resilience programs, delivering cybersecurity training and establishing regulatory compliance frameworks to responding to cybersecurity incidents and managing their regulatory aftermath.

One of the key areas of Natallia’s practice is leading complex, multijurisdictional projects on the implementation of the NIS2 Directive and the Critical Entities Resilience Directive. She also advises clients on emerging and evolving cybersecurity requirements, including those under the Cyber Resilience Act, Cybersecurity Act, Cyber Solidarity Act and DORA, as well as on the cybersecurity dimensions of artificial intelligence, including under the EU AI Act. Her clients include operators of data centers and other digital infrastructure, digital service providers, critical infrastructure operators, and leading companies in the manufacturing, automotive, food, transportation and healthcare sectors.

Natallia is a member of the IAPP Cybersecurity Law Center Advisory Board and a frequent author and speaker on cybersecurity law. She is a co-author, among others, of the ninth edition of the International Comparative Legal Guide – Cybersecurity 2026 and of Casebook European Data Law – Ten Years of the GDPR: A Milestone in EU Data Regulation (Nomos, 2026), and a guest lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Advises companies on cybersecurity incident response, including ransomware attacks, data breaches, fund transfer fraud, and business email compromise

Represents clients in data security and privacy litigation and regulatory investigations

Counsels publicly traded companies on SEC cybersecurity disclosure requirements, including Form 10-K and Form 8-K filings

Leverages a background in computer programming and IT analysis to advise on data security, privacy, AI, and computer forensic investigations