Bio

Mike McIntyre represents clients across North Carolina in government relations and provides legal advice regarding a wide range of business matters. Mike McIntyre’s practice includes government relations on the local, state and national levels, as well as business, real estate, agribusiness, energy and environmental law, along with military, sports and entertainment law. Before joining the firm, he held the position of Congressman of North Carolina’s Seventh Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mike served for 18 years, from 1997 to 2015. Economic development has been at the forefront of Congressman McIntyre’s work, and he has won international, regional, state and local awards for his leadership in the economic arena. He has also served as Chairman of the U.S. House Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development. He has successfully championed the business and economic needs of counties and communities, as well as fire, police and EMS units, airports, schools, colleges and universities, hospitals, health clinics, senior centers, parks and community facilities. His extensive experience with complex coastal resource management and beach development matters places him in a unique position to help clients address increasingly sophisticated coastal resource issues. Mike practiced law for 15 years prior to his election to Congress in 1996. He managed his own firm in two different communities in North Carolina. He has been admitted to practice not only in the State of North Carolina, but also in the Eastern and Middle Districts of NC for federal district court, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.