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Our Capabilities
Nonprofit
We strive to be our nonprofit clients’ most valuable allies, skillfully guiding them through a complex legal maze to ultimately help them realize their vision, mission and impact on the world.
Overview
We provide nonprofit organizations, from small startups to larger institutions and public charities, with high-level legal counsel and analysis regarding regulatory, operational and litigation issues. Our experience in this area touches upon all facets of operating a nonprofit organization and maintaining tax-exempt status. Our reputation for excellence in nonprofit representation is rooted in our emphasis on trust, communication, and on building a holistic understanding of each organization and its goals, values, culture and mission. Our goal is to provide practical, actionable counsel that is relevant to the situation at hand, often applying skills and experience beyond the legal dimension to reach solutions that work. As trusted legal advisors to our nonprofit clients, we bring substantive experience on the specific, unique regulatory areas that govern their actions and offer guidance through regulatory changes. We put our clients’ business and operational objectives first, scaling solutions depending on what’s valuable to them and structuring work to prioritize cost efficiency.
We also assist nonprofits in a variety of legal matters unrelated to regulatory compliance, including assistance on contract negotiations, personnel matters and employment compliance, real estate acquisition and leasing, intellectual property protection and litigation. The full breadth and depth of our firm’s experience is applied to help our nonprofit clients sustain and accomplish their objectives efficiently, expediently and securely.
Services Provided
- Audits and tax controversies
- Contract negotiation and documentation
- Corporate reorganizations
- Employment policies and practices
- Endowment management
- Entity formation and organization
- Intellectual Property
- Litigation
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Nonprofit governance
- Real estate
- Receipt and acceptance of charitable donations
- Tax exempt compliance and planning