Laura Butzel

United States

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP · Laura Butzel is a Partner and Chair of Patterson Belknap's Tax-Exempt Organizations group. She advises tax-exempt, not-for-profit organizations on a broad range of operating issues, including corporate governance and fiduciary duties, joint ventures, program-related investments, structuring subsidiaries, unrelated business income tax and other tax issues, executive compensation, intellectual property and other issues. Her clients include private foundations as well as cultural, human and civil liberties, environmental, publishing, educational, and religious organizations. She also advises charitable clients on endowment issues, publishing and licensing issues, international and domestic grantmaking, lobbying, political activities, and the rules particular to private foundations, among other issues. An active lecturer, Ms. Butzel has presented on a wide range of issues including governance and tax concerns, investment policies and procedures, intellectual property, web site development and internet issues of charitable organizations, joint ventures and political activities of charitable entities. Ms. Butzel serves as an officer of a number of charitable organizations. She is a member of the Board of Advisors of the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law and is a trustee of Teachers College at Columbia University. Ms. Butzel is also a former director of The Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, and former trustee of The John B. Pierce Laboratory, The John B. Pierce Foundation, and of the Shelburne Museum.

United States