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Amy K. Kanyuk
Amy is a founding member of the firm, and is licensed to practice law in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and South Dakota. She concentrates her practice on estate, gift and generation-skipping planning for individuals and families of high net worth, as well as estate and trust administration. She holds the highest rating of A-V from Martindale Hubbell, and is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), where she chairs the the Fiduciary Administration Committee and serves on the Asset Protection Committee, the Nominating Committee, the Program Committee and the Institute Steering Committee. Amy is the official ACTEC observer to the Uniform Law Commission's Conflict of Laws in Trusts and Estates Committee, which is drafting a uniform law to address the problems of conflicts of laws in trusts and estates. In addition, she is a founder and co-Chancellor of ACTEC's New England Fellows Institute. Previously, Amy served as the ACTEC state chair for New Hampshire, and also served for six years on both ACTEC's Board of Regents and its National Membership Selection Committee.
Amy has been selected by her peers for inclusion in Woodward and White’s Best Lawyers in America, in the fields of tax law and trusts and estates, each year since 2007, and as a New Hampshire Super Lawyer. She was named by Best Lawyers as the 2011 and 2017 Concord Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year, and as the 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022 and 2024 Concord Tax Lawyer of the Year. In a survey by Business New Hampshire magazine, Amy was selected by her peers as the best tax and trust and estate attorney in New Hampshire. In each year since 2016, Amy has been named a “Band One” New Hampshire private wealth lawyer by Chambers and Partners.
Amy’s articles and comments about tax and estate planning have appeared in a number of publications, including Trusts and Estates, Estate Planning, Barron’s, the Journal of Accountancy, Massachusetts Lawyer’s Weekly, the New Hampshire Bar News and the New Hampshire Business Review, and she wrote the New Hampshire chapter in the treatise, “Domestic Asset Protection Trusts - A Practice and Resource Manual,” which was published by the American Bar Association in 2021. She frequently lectures before professional and civic groups throughout the United States on tax and estate planning topics. Amy also has served as an adjunct professor at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, teaching Wills, Trusts and Estates.
Amy is a member of the New Hampshire, Massachusetts and South Dakota Bar Associations. She served on the Legislation Committee of the New Hampshire Bar for ten years, and has worked extensively on legislation to improve and modernize New Hampshire’s trust laws, testifying many times before the state legislature in this regard.
Amy received her bachelor of science in finance, with highest distinction, from Penn State University, and she earned both her law degree and M.B.A. from Boston College. She currently is pursuing her master's degree in creative writing and literature from Harvard University, and is working on her second novel.
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Megan C. Knox
Megan is a member of the firm, and licensed to practice law in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. She concentrates her practice in the area of trusts and estates law for middle to high net worth individuals. Her practice includes gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax planning, business succession, asset protection planning and trust and estate administration. Megan’s practice also includes drafting prenuptial agreements and serving as a trust expert in divorce litigation.
Megan is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).
In 2015 and 2017, Megan was named as a Rising Star by New Hampshire Super Lawyers. In 2018, Megan was named as a Rising Star by Massachusetts Super Lawyers and was selected by her peers for inclusion in Woodward and White’s The Best Lawyers in America in the field of trusts and estates.
Megan’s articles about estate planning have appeared in The New Hampshire Bar Journal and the New Hampshire Bar News. She has also presented at multiple seminars for various Bar and other professional organizations.
Megan is a member of the New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island Bar Associations. She currently serves as a member of the Boston Bar Association’s Tax Committee.
She also serves as a member of the Continuing Legal Education Committee for the New Hampshire Bar Association.
Megan served as co-Chair of the Trusts & Estates Section of the New Hampshire Bar Association during the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 fiscal years. She is also a member of the New Hampshire and Boston Estate Planning Councils. In May of 2013, she joined the Board of Directors of the New Hampshire Estate Planning Council, and served as its President during the 2015-2016 fiscal year.
Megan earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Dance, magna cum laude, from Skidmore College and her Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, from Syracuse University College of Law. Megan earned her LL.M. in Taxation from Boston University School of Law, where she finished 5th in her class and received the Ernest M. Haddad Award, which is presented to the Graduate Tax Program student who best exhibits overall ability, taking into consideration academic achievement, character and potential to serve the public interest. She was the first part-time student at Boston University School of Law to receive this award. With a life-long passion for the arts, Megan also holds her A.R.A.D. as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Dance and has studied ballet at The Juilliard School in New York City.
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Robert T. Leahy
Rob joined the firm in 2024, and he focuses his practice on estate and wealth transfer tax planning, and trust and estate administration. Rob also has experience with charitable planning and philanthropic giving for high-net-worth clients.
Prior to joining the firm, Rob worked in the general counsel’s office at Northeastern University, where he focused on major gifts and grants to the university for sponsored research and similar strategic initiatives. He then worked at a Boston law firm where he specialized in non-profit practice, including organizing new charities for high net worth clients, charitable giving, and related charity compliance and operational matters.
Rob’s path to estate and tax planning began with a practice in government contracts, which shares similar regulatory and compliance complexity to estate and tax planning. Rob started his legal career on active duty in the Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps before working as a government contracts attorney within the government and at private law firms in Washington, D.C.
Rob earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Norwich University, summa cum laude, a law degree from Pepperdine University, and an LLM in Taxation from Georgetown University, Dean’s List and with Distinction.
Rob is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts. Rob is co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Tax-Exempt Organizations Section, and sits on the board of the North Bennet St. School.
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Kyla Tuckerman
Kyla Tuckerman joined the firm as an associate in 2026. Before becoming an attorney, she worked as a paralegal at the firm, handling complex trust and administration matters, including the preparation of federal estate tax returns. Prior to joining McDonald & Kanyuk, Kyla worked as a paralegal at a Cape Cod law firm, where she focused on estate and elder law planning, estate and trust administration, and business succession planning.
Kyla’s practice focuses on estate and tax planning, including estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax planning, business succession, asset protection, and trust and estate administration.
Kyla earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from Suffolk University, magna cum laude, and her Juris Doctor from the University of Massachusetts School of Law. She is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association.
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