NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

Seasoned, Comprehensive Guidance for Tax-exempt Organizations

Broad Experience with a Focus on the Details

Our firm is well-known for our collaborative approach. Nowhere is this collaboration more evident than in our nonprofit organizations group, which includes professionals from the firm's tax, ERISA/employee benefits, corporate finance and technology, labor and employment, healthcare, real estate, intellectual property and government relations teams. Together, we provide a broad scope of experience coupled with the detailed knowledge that nonprofit organizations require in order to achieve their mission.

Our attorneys provide a full range of services that meet the unique needs of nonprofit entities, including:

• Establishing or restructuring nonprofit organizations, including obtaining tax-exempt status from the IRS and state tax authorities.
• Advising clients on charitable solicitation rules and assisting with state registrations.
• Managing business activities and minimizing the effect of unrelated business income tax.
• Designing compensation arrangements, employment agreements and succession plans.
• Advising on intellectual property issues.
• Negotiating collective bargaining agreements.
• Structuring and negotiating joint ventures between for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
• Structuring and negotiating tax-exempt financing.
• Performing legal audits.
• Representing nonprofit organizations in IRS and state audits.
• Advising on corporate governance issues.
• Advising on tax compliance, including lobbying restrictions and private foundation rules.
• Assisting with reporting obligations.
• Structuring program-related investments by private foundations into traditional for-profits and hybrid business entities, including low-profit limited liability companies.
• Advising on structuring mission-related investments.
• Advising on international philanthropy matters.
• Monitoring legislative and regulatory developments.