Shanahan Law Group Partners Kieran J. Shanahan, Tonya Bunn Powell recognized in Best Lawyers in America 2020

Shanahan Law Group, PLLC founder, Kieran J. Shanahan, and partner, Tonya Bunn Powell, have been recognized among their peers for inclusion in the 26th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©. Shanahan was recognized for his work in Construction Law and Powell was recognized in Real Estate Law and Litigation.

Best Lawyers is one of the oldest and most renowned peer-reviewed publications in the legal profession.  Best Lawyers’ lists are compiled by conducting exhaustive peer review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. If the votes for a lawyer are positive enough for recognition in Best Lawyers, that lawyer must maintain those votes in subsequent polls to remain in each edition. Lawyers are not permitted to pay any fee to participate in or be recognized by Best Lawyers.

“Being recognized by your peers is a tremendous honor,” said Shanahan. “Our firm is blessed to have a roster of high-caliber legal professionals, and Tonya and I are grateful that our fellow attorneys have once again chosen to acknowledge our service with recognition in Best Lawyers.”

Kieran J. Shanahan is a former federal prosecutor and an experienced litigator with extensive trial court experience in federal and state courts around the country. He is also a Certified Mediator with substantial Alternative Dispute Resolution experience. Shanahan has earned a reputation as a tenacious litigator who is willing and able to successfully tackle complex, high-stakes cases. His practice includes banking matters, business disputes, employment and construction matters, as well as class action, administrative, and federal white-collar defense matters. He also handles corporate compliance, professional licensing, and internal investigations for professionals and corporations under regulatory scrutiny. Shanahan also has substantial non-litigation experience, including providing general business, corporate and banking advice to small and medium size companies. In 1989, he received the Director’s Award from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and was recognized as one of the most outstanding federal prosecutors in the country. Shanahan has been chosen as one of the “Top 100 Lawyers in America” by the National Trial Lawyers, is a peer-selected “Best Lawyers in America” honoree, has been recognized as a North Carolina Super Lawyer, was elected to Business North Carolina Magazine’s “Legal Elite,” and has been chosen “A Leader in the Law” in North Carolina.

Tonya Bunn Powell concentrates her practice in the areas of commercial real estate, banking and finance and general corporate law. In addition to more than twenty years of commercial real estate and lender representation experience, Tonya has worked as general counsel for a real estate development company, where she gained valuable experience in the formation, restructure and operation of limited liability companies, including complex joint venture entities created for ownership and development of real estate projects, as well as working closely with lenders on complex debt restructures and workouts.  She is a board-certified specialist in commercial real property law: business, commercial and industrial transactions. As a Past Chair of the North Carolina Bar Association’s Real Property Section, Tonya worked with real estate attorneys across the state to draft, monitor and comment upon state and federal proposed legislation and regulations affecting real property practice; monitor and comment upon State Bar ethics inquiries; sponsor and participate in pro bono projects; conduct an aggressive consumer protection/authorized practice program; and implement programs and plan continuing legal education programs for members of the Bar Association’s largest practice section.