Ann H. Zucker

Experience

• Represented a tax-exempt school (grades K-12) in sale to for profit buyer
• Represented Fairfield County private school (grades K-12) in merger with private school (grades K-8)
• Conversion of a taxable cemetery association to a tax-exempt organization
• Guide the development of a land bank authority under Connecticut Land Bank legislation
• Lead a tax-exempt acute care hospital and its affiliates through a sale to a for profit purchaser and undertaking the related statutory conversion process
• Lead tax-exempt bond financings through CHEFA for schools, hospitals and other “qualified organizations”, such as childcare centers
• Developed unique corporate governance structure to facilitate resolution of complex claims in family-owned business
• Represented seventeen borrowers in a tax-exempt financing for childcare centers
• Advised bank with $7,500,000,000 in assets on real estate issues for its eighty-eight branch locations
• Negotiated the reorganization of several tax-exempt Massachusetts and Connecticut industry associations
• Negotiated tax exempt lease to finance hospital’s acquisition of clinical and financial software
• Providing guidance on conflict of interest issues, private inurement, executive compensation, unrelated business income tax, and intermediate sanctions
• Representing charitable organizations that provide global food, medicine, and health services on operational corporate governance, and tax-exempt issues
• Created 501(c)(3) organizations for social services, food insecurity, urban farming, autism services, post-closing foundations, behavioral health and other endeavors