Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

Tax; Corporate

David Ulich is a partner in the Tax Practice Group in Sheppard Mullin's Century City office. He is also Team Leader of the firm's Nonprofit Sector Team which was named Nonprofit Sector Law Firm of the Year in California.

David provides business, corporate and tax advice to educational, public and religious charities and foundations such as the American Film Institute, The Annenberg Foundation, Childhelp USA, Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, Mission Without Borders, Foundation for Global Sports Development and others. David has expertise in public private partnerships between foundations and public agencies, including dealing with tax, regulatory and planning issues.  His work includes: (i) preparing applications on behalf of these Not-for-Profit entities for tax exemptions and nonprofit status under federal and state tax guidelines; (ii) helping nonprofits to joint venture on projects with other nonprofits as well as for profit entities; (iii) dealing with excess benefit and private inurement issues; (iv) drafting donation and sponsorship agreements; and (v) providing guidance on nonprofit governance and appropriate director and officer conduct, including compliance and disclosure issues.

David is President of a nonprofit organization, Foundation for Global Sports Development, that works closely with the International Olympic Committee and a variety of International Sports Federations on global sports development projects. He was also actively involved in researching the use of performance-enhancing substances by former East German athletes and contributed to a book on the subject called Faust's Gold.

David has extensive experience in the structuring of corporate reorganizations, including mergers, stock for stock exchanges, corporate spin-offs and shareholder redemptions, as well as the tax treatment of "S" corporations. He has handled all aspects of partnership and limited liability company law including formation and dissolution of partnerships and LLC's, drafting partnership and LLC agreements, merging of partnerships and tax treatment of partners, and LLC members in transactions with their companies.

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Advisory Committee Member, University of Pennsylvania Blue Ribbon Panel to Investigate the Abuses of Larry Nassar

Member, International Fair Play Committee Council

Member, 2028 Olympic Bid Committee

Board of Directors, Los Angeles Sport Council

Board of Directors, The Los Angeles Sports Council Foundation

Board of Directors, Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games

Member, American Bar Association Subcommittee on Partnership Taxation

Adjunct member, American Bar Association Subcommittee on Corporate Taxation

Board of Directors, Terralex, an international referral service for law firms

Lecturer, University of Southern California Masters Tax Program, where he taught classes on the Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders

Board of Directors, several non-profit foundations

LL.M., New York University, 1985

J.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1984, Member, UCLA Law Review

B.A., Haverford College, 1981