Many of our clients are not-for-profit entities. We provide them with sophisticated legal services on issues specifically relating to their tax-exempt status. Our clients include complex health care organizations, schools, social service organizations, religious corporations, advocacy groups and private foundations. Our representations include:
Restructuring complex not-for-profit systems to achieve tax and operating efficiency and regulatory compliance.
Counseling on joint ventures and mergers.
Creating and implementing compliance programs.
Obtaining tax exempt status for a wide range of activities including healthcare, education, housing for the elderly, publishing religious activities, social services, advocacy of ideas, environmental developments and conversions from for-profit status.
Representing clients in obtaining tax exempt financing, including tax exempt bonds and government guaranteed loans.
Counseling organizations subject to specific laws and regulations, including religious corporations, cemeteries and Mitchell-Lama housing facilities.
Structuring compensation and deferred compensation arrangements, including the use of Rabbi Trusts and compliance with IRS intermediate sanction rules.
Obtaining local, state and property tax exemption.
Obtaining court and Attorney General consent for the sale of assets, and mergers and dissolutions of not-for-profit organizations.
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