Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Exempt Organizations

Kevin Roe is Counsel in the Firm’s Exempt Organizations Practice. He advises public charities and private foundations on structural and operating issues, including formation, governance, reorganizations, commercial transactions, domestic and international grantmaking, and taxation. He also provides advice to public and private companies on corporate social responsibility programs and to not-for-profit institutions and their donors on charitable giving.

In addition, Kevin represents universities, foundations, hospitals, and cultural institutions in connection with the investment of their endowments, including in the review and negotiation of documentation relating to investments in private funds and similar investment vehicles and in connection with impact investments and mission- and program-related investments.

Kevin is the author of Understanding Private Foundations for Thomson Reuters Practical Law. He is a member of the Government Relations Council of Nonprofit New York and chair of its Federal Taxation subcommittee, and he previously served as Secretary of the Non-Profit Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. In addition to regular CLE instruction and professional presentations, Kevin teaches Nonprofit Law at Fordham University School of Law.

Joined Firm, 2013.

New York University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude; Order of the Coif, 2013); Yale University (B.A., cum laude, 2006).