Brendan Wilson is an associate in Caplin & Drysdale's Washington, D.C. office. He joined the firm in 2011. Prior to joining Caplin & Drysdale, he practiced corporate and tax law at another prominent Washington D.C. firm.
Services
Mr. Wilson provides a broad spectrum of tax and corporate advice to various tax-exempt organizations, including charities, churches and religious organizations, trade associations, social welfare organizations, healthcare organizations, title holding companies, and private foundations. His tax-exempt organization representations include seeking rulings and determinations from tax authorities, structuring and negotiating transactions, completing mergers, asset purchases and spin-offs, providing strategic tax advice regarding activities in the United States and in foreign countries, and representing clients in tax controversies with federal, state and local taxing authorities. Mr. Wilson also serves as outside counsel to several non-profit and for-profit clients, providing them advice on corporate governance matters, commercial contracts and grant agreements, lobbying and political campaign activities, and the rules governing the solicitation of charitable funds.
Professional Activities
Mr. Wilson is interested in the emerging area of social entrepreneurship, and speaks regularly at conferences about the law of social enterprise and the creation and operation of hybrid organizations. Mr. Wilson also represents several religious institutes and congregations in the United States and Canada, and regularly participates in conferences that focus on the interconnection between civil and canon law.
Mr. Wilson's speaking engagements include:
- Panel, Multi-Level (International, National, Regional & Local) Non-profit Organizations: How to Structure Them Plus Unexpected Issues, ABA Annual Conference (2011), ABA Business Section's Nonprofit Organizations Committee
- Panel, The Development of Hybrid Enterprises, Fordham University School of Law, New York, Focolare Conference (2011)
- Master of Ceremonies, Canon Law Conference for Canonists and Civil Lawyers, La Crosse, WI (2010 and 2011)
- Panel, Recent Developments in Social Enterprise Law, Fordham University School of Law, New York, Focolare Conference (2009)
Recent Publications
- Planning for Co-Investments Between a Private Foundation and a Disqualified Person, Journal of Taxation, Vol. 116, No. 1 (January 2012)
- State-Level Charity Watchdogs Need Support From Uncle Sam, Chronicle of Philanthropy (2010) (with Lloyd Mayer)
- Regulating Charities in the 21st Century: An Institutional Choice Analysis, 85 Chicago-Kent Law Review 479 (2010) (with Lloyd Mayer)
- Using Subsidiaries to Hold and Manage Real Property, Taxation of Exempts, July/August (2010)