Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Corporate

Senior Counsel

Christian advises nonprofits and tax-exempt organizations on a variety of structural and operating issues.

Christian’s practice includes advising public charities, private foundations, health care organizations, and educational institutions regarding formations, determinations of exempt status, dissolutions, restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, affiliations, and other strategic transactions. In addition, he counsels clients in the areas of executive compensation, conflicts of interest, corporate governance, commercial co-ventures, fundraising, grantmaking, and property tax exemption and refunds. Christian also represents clients under audit by the Internal Revenue Service, Franchise Tax Board, and California Attorney General.

JD, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law BA, Columbia UniversityEconomics and Political Science