Brendan M. Wilson provides corporate and tax advice to clients engaged in transactional matters. He also counsels clients on nonprofit corporation, charitable trust law and other legal issues affecting nonprofits.
Brendan counsels individuals, businesses, family offices, private foundations, charities, churches and religious organizations, trade associations, hybrid enterprises, health care organizations, and educational nonprofit organizations.
Brendan also advises nonprofit clients on tax law matters. He has experience counseling private foundations on excise tax matters and advising nonprofit clients on unrelated business income tax issues.
He also has experience seeking rulings and determinations from tax authorities and resolving tax controversies with federal, state and local taxing authorities. Brendan helps nonprofit clients obtain exemption from state income and sales taxes and comply with state-level charitable solicitation rules and regulations.
Brendan works with clients engaged in international activities. He advises clients on international grantmaking issues, OFAC and FCPA compliance issues, the creation of foreign affiliates, and cross-border tax issues.
Brendan also works with foreign nonprofit organizations operating in the United States, advising them on legal structuring issues, fundraising issues and the creation of “friends of” organizations.
Brendan advises churches and religious organizations, including religiously affiliated schools. Brendan also works regularly with Catholic religious institutes and their sponsored ministries and has experience helping religious institutes create ministry corporations and charitable trusts, merge provinces, and restructure their operations.
Brendan serves as outside counsel to a number of nonprofit associations, including charitable association and business leagues. Brendan advises associations on governance, tax, structuring and corporate transaction matters.
Education :
- Notre Dame Law School, J.D. magna cum laude, Notre Dame Law Review (2004)
- University of Guelph, B.Sc. with honors (2001)
Bar Admissions : District of Columbia, Maryland
Professional Associations :
- American Bar Association — Business Law Section; Nonprofit Organizations Committee; Religious Organizations Subcommittee (Past Chair); Trade Association and Professional Organizations Subcommittee (Past Chair)
- District of Columbia Bar Association — Tax Section
Civic Activities :
- NFL Player Care Foundation – Scholarship Committee, 2016-present
- Resource Center for Religious Institutes – Board Member, 2015-present
- Resolve Uganda, Inc. — Board Member, 2007-14
Cost
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