Nonprofit Corporate Services

Overview

Our business and corporate practice covers all aspects of our clients' day-to-day lives. While we have the expertise to handle specialized transactions and events, our business lawyers' first and foremost focus is on serving as the equivalent of a client's "primary care" lawyer.  As primary care lawyers, we can offer "check-ups" to make sure a client is in compliance with corporate law requirements and formalities -- our reviews of corporate minute books and records can serve as either a regular maintenance item, or as preparation for a more significant "procedure," such as a public offering or acquisition. We also offer "preventive medicine," such as training and advising corporate officers and directors on their duties and responsibilities. And, should a "specialist" be required, corporate lawyers serve as gatekeepers, seeing to it that a client gets the specialized advice it requires and maintaining oversight over the process.

Name
Title
Contact
Heidi K. Abegg
Partner
Emailhabegg@whitefordlaw.com
202.836.8458
Jeffrey P. Altman
Partner
Emailjaltman@whitefordlaw.com
202.659.6818
Steven P. Benson
Partner
Emailsbenson@whitefordlaw.com
703.280.3391
Jefferson C. Glassie, FASAE
Senior Counsel
Emailjglassie@whitefordlaw.com
202.689.3156
Eileen Morgan Johnson, CAE
Partner
Emailemjohnson@whitefordlaw.com
703.280.9271
Frank S. Jones, Jr.
Partner
Emailfjones@whitefordlaw.com
410.347.8707
Emily K. Lashley
Partner
Emailelashley@whitefordlaw.com
410.832.2112
George S. Lawler
Partner
Emailglawler@whitefordlaw.com
410.832.2040
S. Keith Moulsdale
Partner
Emailskmoulsdale@whitefordlaw.com
410.347.8721
Enayat Qasimi
Partner
Emaileqasimi@whitefordlaw.com
+1 202.659.6792
Herman B. Rosenthal
Partner
Emailhrosenthal@whitefordlaw.com
410.347.9488
Stephen M. Schaefer
Partner
Emailsschaefer@whitefordlaw.com
410.884.2444

Client Alert: No CFC! No Federal Funding! How Do We Raise Funds Now? – Avoiding Legal Pitfalls When Beginning New Fundraising Campaigns

Nonprofits are experiencing funding challenges and scrambling to fund their missions. While termination of nonprofits’ federal funding has garnered a lot of attention recently, yet another funding challenge arose this week. Charities participating in the Combined Federal Campaign (“CFC”) now face a new funding shutoff created by the Trump Administration’s pause of the annual charitable fundraising program.

Client Alert: Nonprofits and New Foreign Influence Registration and Reporting Schemes: A Growing Trend with Broad Applicability

Florida’s recent amendments to its Charitable Solicitation Act are getting a lot of attention – and for good reason – charitable fundraising just got even harder. But Florida’s efforts to combat foreign influence should attract the nonprofit sector’s attention for another reason. Florida’s unique approach may be a sign of what is to come as state efforts to regulate foreign influence of nonprofits ramp up, creating a national minefield.

Client Alert: Corporate Diligence - Things to Consider During Troubling Times

In an era of increasing litigation, keeping accurate, detailed corporate minutes is critical.  In addition to their standard function of recording and reflecting decisions made by company management and directors and the deliberation of those decisions, corporate minutes can help establish that company directors have met their fiduciary obligations and have executed a sound decision-making process.  Conversely, poor minute keeping can result in protracted litigation to determine the care that went into a board's decision to act.  It is vital for a company to keep an accurate, precise and complete record of director decision-making and oversight.  Furthermore, the failure to maintain such corporate formalities could result in a piercing of the corporate veil action and allow claimants to reach the assets of a company's shareholders. Our Corporate attorneys can assist you in updating your company's books and records.