William M. Klimon is Of Counsel in Caplin & Drysdale's Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Klimon joined the firm in 2001 after he had previously practiced in the corporate law departments of two other national law firms.
Services
Mr. Klimon works principally with Caplin & Drysdale’s Tax Exempt Organizations group, where he focuses on choice of business entities, corporate governance, structuring, and restructuring, and transactions. In the last decade, he has advised over 500 nonprofit organizations on a complete range of issues from formation to dissolution.
Selected Recent Publications and Speeches He has published articles in Health Lawyers Weekly and the journal Taxation of Exempts and has contributed to the sixth edition of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management’s Risk Management Handbook for Healthcare Organizations. He has spoken on nonprofit corporate governance and transactional issues at the Center for Nonprofit Advancement’s “Public Private Partnership Conference,” the American Health Lawyers Association’s “Hospitals and Health Systems Law Institute,” and the National Business Officers Association’s “Tax Institute for Private Schools.” He has also been an instructor in contractual and commercial relations in Georgetown University’s Paralegal Studies Program.
Prior Professional Experience
Mr. Klimon served in the U.S. Army from 1987 to 1990, during which time he was assigned to the U.S. Army Field Station in Berlin. Later, he was a Lambe Fellow and a Merrill Fellow in the history department of the graduate school at Cornell University and was on the staff of The Johns Hopkins University.