Jessica N. Angney

Jessica advises businesses on the tax consequences of transactions throughout their life cycle, from formation to dissolution. Her corporate tax practice encompasses acquisitions, dispositions, tax-free reorganizations, restructurings and other business combinations. She helps clients structure entities and transactions to limit tax exposure, and addresses tax considerations in mergers, spinoffs, divestitures and recapitalizations.

Her transactional work also includes tax advice on partnerships, joint ventures, strategic alliances and venture capital transactions. Alongside these matters, Jessica advises businesses on tax-minimization strategies in connection with their ongoing transactions and combinations.

Jessica also works with charitable foundations and other not-for-profit organizations. She advises them on obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt status, regulatory compliance, governance, tax-exempt financing, and operational and transactional matters.

• Represented Clarendon Capital in its acquisition of O’Donnell Metal Deck & Bar Joist (OMD), a leading value-added distributor of metal decking, steel bar joists, and related structural products serving the commercial construction industry.
• Represented American Equipment Solutions, a portfolio company of Rotunda Capital Partners, in its divestiture of Kanawha Scales & Systems and related industrial weighing business to Investcorp.
• Represented a private equity buyer in its acquisition of a wholesale distributor of pipes, valves, and fittings.
• Represented the Buyer in its acquisition of a company engaged in the sale and servicing of first responder vehicles.
• Represented a private equity sponsored buyer in its carve-out acquisition of service center locations from an industry-leading manufacturer of environmental and refuse equipment, in connection with and in addition to the negotiation of a multi-state distributor relationship between such buyer and manufacturer.
• Represented the Buyer in its acquisition of the equity of an HVAC company located in Georgia.

Cleveland State University College of Law, 2000, J.D., summa cum laude

• Managing Editor, Law Review
• Moot Court Member

Ohio

• Listed, Legal 500: City Elite, Tax, 2026
• Listed, The Best Lawyers in America®, Tax, 2023-2027
• Listed, The Best Lawyers in America® “Lawyer of the Year,” Tax, 2026

• Board of Directors, Ohio Association of Nonprofit Organizations
• Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
• Certified Public Accountant, Ohio (inactive)