Mr. McGill has a wide ranging corporate practice with an emphasis on corporate finance and securities law. His experience includes the representation of issuers and underwriters and placement agents in public offerings and private placements, leveraged buyouts, reverse mergers, SPACs and the design of tax sensitive partnerships and LLCs including REITs. He has participated in offerings of debt and equity for domestic US and foreign issuers. The offerings for which he has served as counsel have included simultaneous offerings of securities within and outside the United States, as well as public offerings and private placements in which the proceeds of the offering, combined with institutional debt financing, were used to complete a simultaneous acquisition of an operating business, real estate or commodities. In the representation of his clients Mr. McGill has been involved in all aspects of their businesses including senior personnel matters, the selection of Board Members and the negotiation and documentation of acquisition and licensing agreements involving the business's core intellectual property. Mr. McGill has been involved in all aspects of structuring transactions and consummating an offering, including bringing the principals to the table. He has represented a number of investment banks, including Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., UBS, Taglich Brothers, Inc., and Integrated Resources in connection with structuring issues and public offerings and private placements. On the other side of the table, Mr. McGill has represented issuers in various industries, including biotech, fashion, manufacturing, aerospace, telecommunications and real estate. Mr. McGill has represented a number of his clients from their initial private placement through their public offering and successful listing on a US exchange. Mr. McGill became Managing Partner of Eaton & Van Winkle in 2012, graduated from Colgate University cum laude (A.B., 1977); received his JD from Hofstra University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review, and an LL.M in Corporation Law from New York University (1986).

Some of the transactions in which Mr. McGill has served as counsel include the Initial Public Offering of Donna Karan, the leveraged buyout of Kohl's Inc., the sale leaseback of the headquarters of Xerox and Ducommun Aerostructures, and more recently nearly a dozen reverse mergers for US domestic and Chinese operating companies, including, among others, Universal Travel, Air Industries Group, Dune Energy, Xiangwu DMC Paper Holding Group Ltd., Adamant DRI Processing & Minerals Group, and BioPharm Asia. Mr. McGill has represented Aoxin Tianli, Inc., since shortly after the completion of its IPO in 2010. Other Members of Eaton & Van Winkle have also been representing Chinese individuals and entities for more than twenty years in connection with operating businesses in both China and the United States, real estate acquisitions and management throughout the United and the protection of IP originating inside China. Currently, Eaton & Van Winkle maintains a working relationship with LungTin International, an intellectual property law firm with over 160 professionals throughout China, which houses one of its partners in the offices of Eaton & Van Winkle. On the litigation side, one of Eaton & Van Winkle's partners successfully defended claims brought against eight accounting firms arising out of reverse mergers of Chinese operating companies.