Catherine H. Gillespie serves as Of Counsel in Montgomery McCracken’s Business Department. She focuses her practice on health care, with a particular focus on long-term care, higher education and a range of corporate and tax law issues affecting nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations.
Her expertise includes mergers and acquisitions of nonprofit entities, re-structuring relationships between and among organizations and creating documents to reflect the resulting structures. She counsels tax exempt organizations on the process of being sold to for profit businesses and guides the organizations through the often-complicated process.
Catherine regularly obtains 501(c)(3) status for nonprofit clients and subsequently works with them to maintain that status. She regularly advises organizations on Federal and state law compliance and licensure issues.
Additionally, Catherine provides legal expertise by advising clients in the following areas:
- Amendments to Bylaws and Articles to accurately reflect an organization’s internal operations;
- Dissolution of an organization;
- Health care regulatory compliance;
- HIPAA compliance advice to businesses and nonprofits as well as their contractors and subcontractors;
- Real estate tax and sales tax exemptions for 501(c)(3) organizations;
- Negotiate and create, if needed, contracts for the unique needs of charities of various missions and sizes;
- Review admission agreements for various types of health care facilities to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations;
- Provide day-to-day advice and guidance to clients.
She is certified in Health Care Compliance by the Health Care Compliance Association. She has a Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan and a Master’s in social work from West Virginia University, both with a focus on gerontology.
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