Founding Member

Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe LLC

LeRoy Metz II practices tax, business, and estate planning law.

He also manages the business end of the firm. He takes pride in working with some of the finest people he knows, people who set the standard for professional ability and ethical conduct.

LeRoy is on the Board of Trustees of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. He has seen ballet companies all over the country and contends that Pittsburgh’s ballet is one of the best.

Representative Matters

• Represented numerous buyers and sellers in various corporate acquisitions, sales and mergers.
• Assisted clients in shareholder disputes to achieve business settlements to problems and avoid expensive, bitter and lengthy litigation.
• Represented business from idea, through incorporation, several rounds of equity and debt sales and ultimately profitable sale of the enterprise.
• Assisted corporate clients victimized by embezzlement by trusted employees through recovery of funds and prosecution of perpetrators.
• Obtained numerous IRS agreements to compromise tax debts for a fraction of the liability based upon either an original mistake by the IRS or taxpayer’s diminished ability to pay.
• Prevented disastrous estate tax from befalling estates of terminally ill individuals who had no wills by obtaining court appointment of family members as guardians and directing assets to trusts with tax saving provisions.

Professional Affiliations & Honors

• Listed in 2013 and 2014 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® (Tax Law)
• Listed as “2012 Top Rate Lawyers® in Mergers & Acquisitions® in The American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel magazine
• Chosen by Pittsburgh Magazine as a Selected Wealth Manager for 2012
• Five Star Estate Planning Attorney
• Recognized as an AV® rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell peer review
• First recognized as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer in 2204
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Past Chair, Tax Section, Allegheny County Bar Association
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Past President, Pittsburgh Tax Club
• Estate Planning Council of Pittsburgh
• Trustee and Past Chair, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
• Chairman of the Board, Ductmate Industries, Inc.
• Board of Directors, Zippo Manufacturing Co. and W.R. Case & Sones Cutlery Co.
• Board of Directors for Cernostics
• Member of National Association of Corporate Directors

Background

• 1998 Metz Lewis Broadman Must O’Keefe LLC President Member of the Executive Committee

Education

• 1975 J.D., University of Pittsburgh
• 1972 M.B.A., University of Utah
• 1969 B.S., West Virginia University

Admissions

• Pennsylvania
• U.S. Tax Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
  

Metz Lewis Brodman Must O’Keefe LLC delivers experienced, solutions-driven lawyers across several practice areas and industries. Their corporate and transactional lawyers serve as primary outside counsel to companies based both in Pennsylvania and globally. The firm’s litigation group has tried cases throughout the United States and internationally, including such diverse matters as complex shareholder disputes, defense of class actions, international arbitrations, product liability, antitrust disputes, and indemnification claims arising from M&A transactions.

Their bank lawyers represent financial institutions in a variety of areas, including loan documentation, creditors’ rights, workouts, bankruptcy and diverse bank litigation. Many dynamic and sophisticated companies depend on them as their “go-to” law firm in their core areas of strength because they are business-savvy professionals who can readily identify the important issues and devise practical solutions.

The firm’s practice areas include alternative dispute resolution, banking, corporate transactions and securities, employment and labor, healthcare industry group, intellectual property and technology, litigation and dispute resolution, private client group, real estate, and energy.

Learn more at metzlewis.com.​​​​​​​