Practice Areas & Industries: Holme Roberts & Owen LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Nonprofit organizations are an important part of our community. The nonprofit organizations practice group at Holme Roberts & Owen LLP (HRO) is organized to provide our many nonprofit clients with the full range of legal expertise needed to effectively use their limited resources to address virtually unlimited community needs.

HRO is one of the Rocky Mountain region's oldest and largest commercial law firms, with over 200 lawyers in offices in Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and London. The nonprofit organizations practice group draws on this depth of expertise and works across the departments of the firm to ensure that the group's transactional and litigation work is handled expeditiously by lawyers with a thorough understanding of these organizations.

Services Available

The nonprofit organizations practice group is composed of lawyers who have experience in matters that particularly affect this important sector of our community. It also includes lawyers who practice in a wide variety of other legal areas, but who have a special awareness of the unique circumstances and objectives of nonprofit organizations. Through the combined expertise of these lawyers, the practice group is able to provide services with respect to a broad range of matters, including:

• Federal tax matters, such as formation and application for exemption, compliance with private inurement and other federal tax restrictions, intermediate sanctions, unrelated business income tax, compliance with private foundation rules, lobbying rules and restrictions, and employment taxes
• State and local tax liabilities and exemptions
• Corporate governance, structure, subsidiaries, mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations of nonprofit corporations Contracts
• Employee rights and benefits, and executive compensation planning
• Partnerships, joint ventures, coalitions and other collaborative arrangements
• Debt issues, tax-exempt bond financing and other loan transactions
• Real estate acquisitions, mortgages, leases and environmental compliance
• Charitable-giving and estate planning advice for development officers and potential contributors
• Fund-raising procedures and regulation of charitable solicitations
• Health care law and institutions
• Constitutional issues, including First Amendment rights
• International operations and transactions
• Litigation and alternative dispute resolution proceedings
• Sponsorship and licensing agreements
• Professional liability and risk management
• Antitrust counseling and representation
• Trademarks and copyright Publishing activities