Nonprofit Organizations

In addition to the extensive nonprofit corporation work of our Public Finance Tax Group for state and local governments and agencies, Tax Department lawyers engage in an extensive array of engagements in the not-for-profit sector. Our private wealth lawyers routinely include family foundations and charitable trusts as part of family plans, where we represent hundreds of such organizations. Our corporate tax lawyers enjoy expertise in foundations, having formed, counseled and merged or dissolved private foundations for many corporations including Transamerica, BankAmerica, Lucky Stores, Crown Zellerbach, Seagate Software, Nellcor-Puritan Bennett, and PG&E Corporation.

Orrick Tax Department lawyers have special expertise in California nonprofit public benefit corporation and religious corporation law, involving California Attorney General regulation as well as federal and state tax exemptions and tax on unrelated business income.