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To Our Valued Clients, Colleagues, and Friends,
As summer draws to a close and we look ahead to the busy season that always seems to follow Labor Day, we are pleased to share some exciting news about our growing firm.
While the nonprofit world navigates new challenges and opportunities, the needs of our clients and the entire nonprofit sector continue to evolve. To help meet those needs, we are delighted to share that Attorneys Tori Buzzelli, Eric Robertson, David Chused, Rachel Piscette, and Avi Lev have joined our firm since early this Spring.
They each bring a wealth of nonprofit legal expertise, years of deep experience in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors, and pragmatic approaches to solution-driven problem solving.
We are energized by this continued growth and look forward to introducing you to the newest members of our team.
From all of us at Hurwit & Associates, we thank you for your continued trust in us and we remain grateful partners in helping you further your mission.
With gratitude,
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Tori Buzzelli advises charitable organizations and other 501(c) entities on transactional, operational, grantmaking, fundraising, and state and IRS compliance matters.
She brings a unique combination of nonprofit law experience and sophisticated corporate transactional expertise, helping organizations navigate governance matters, strategic growth, and complex organizational transitions.
Tori is passionate about supporting organizations that strengthen communities and create lasting impact. She also brings firsthand nonprofit experience through her board service and volunteer involvement with mission-driven organizations.
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Eric Robertson advises founders, senior leadership, and boards of directors of nonprofit organizations on issues related to corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, executive compensation, acquisition and maintenance of tax-exempt status, formation documents, and corporate policies.
Eric has guided organizations of various sizes through strategic mergers, dissolutions, government investigations, and the negotiation of significant donor and gift agreements. In addition to representing 501(c)(3) charitable organizations, Eric has a broad array of experience working with 501(c)(4) civic organizations; 501(c)(6) business leagues, professional associations, and chambers of commerce; and 501(c)(7) recreation and social clubs.
On the executive compensation side, Eric designs deferred compensation arrangements for executives and key employees, structuring plans to comply with, or properly qualify for exemption from, Sections 409A and 457(f) of the Internal Revenue Code.
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David Chused is an experienced 501(c)(3) tax attorney with strong analytical, strategic, communication, and interpersonal skills, and deep expertise in higher education, philanthropy, and planned giving.
For more than twenty years, he served as legal counsel in resource development and advancement at two of the world’s leading research universities, following nearly two decades in major law firm practice.
David brings broad expertise in structuring subsidiary entities, tax-exempt financings, negotiating and facilitating complex charitable gifts (domestically and internationally), and establishing retirement plans, as well as in developing fundraising strategies for individual donors, corporations, and private foundations.
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Rachel Piscette provides tax-exempt and nonprofit organizations with pragmatic, creative legal advice on structural, compliance, governance, and operational matters. She works with traditional and non-traditional organizational models globally, including private foundations, public charities, fiscal sponsors/sponsored projects, DAFs and re-granters, public agencies, non-hierarchical organizations, and unregistered civil society groups.
Rachel’s expertise spans U.S. exempt organizations tax law, nonprofit compliance, good governance, and legal risk management—with specialized skill in grantmaking and expenditure responsibility. By pairing this legal knowledge with a deep understanding of programmatic strategy and grant design, she delivers grounded guidance that allows clients to focus on driving positive social impact.
Rachel serves as Deputy General Counsel at the Meliore Foundation. Her background also includes work with Idaho Legal Aid Services and the Open Society Foundations.
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Avi Lev advises tax-exempt and nonprofit organizations on formation, governance, regulatory and tax compliance, fundraising, and strategic growth. He helps clients develop practical legal solutions that align with their missions and objectives.
Avi also counsels nonprofit organizations on contracts, real estate, employment matters, intellectual property, executive compensation, mergers, dissolutions, and collaborative ventures with for-profit entities.
As a former faculty member in Boston University's LLM program in taxation and as the chair of a tax department of a major law firm, Avi has also represented nonprofit, for-profit, and individual taxpayers in audits and tax controversies before the IRS and state tax authorities.
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If you need assistance today with a question or concern, please call our office at +1 (617) 630-6900 (U.S.) or reply to this email.
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