Name: Kieran Shanahan
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KIERAN J. Shanahan is the Principal attorney at Shanahan Law Group in Raleigh, North Carolina. He 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, including FINRA matters.

Shanahan handles a wide variety of cases, including 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.

Shanahan spent over five years as an assistant U.S. attorney, serving in both the Eastern District of North Carolina and the Northern District of Georgia, where he concentrated in the investigation and prosecution of white collar crime. In 1989, he received the Directors 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.

He 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 for nine years running, has been recognized by North Carolina Super Lawyers several times, was elected to Business North Carolina Magazine’s Legal Elite, and has been chosen A Leader in the Law in North Carolina.

Kieran was chairman of East Carolina University’s Board of Trustees and was also on the Board of Trustees for Bennett College for Women.

Shanahan earned a BS, cum laude, from East Carolina University, and a JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. He is married to Christina (Tina) Alvarado Shanahan, a retired rear admiral in the U.S. Navy (RC) and a multiple world and national champion equestrian. They have three children: Kate, Jimmy and Patrick. In 2016 the couple received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine which is awarded to those who display exemplary service to the state of North Carolina and their communities.
Shanahan traces his Irish ancestry to Co. Clare. In March of 2019 he attended the White House St. Patrick’s Day reception in honor of Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. He was also the grand marshal of Raleigh’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in 1999.

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