Richard Sevcik Deepens Local and National Bench

CHICAGO, Ill. (July 1, 2014) - Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Richard L. Sevcik has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a partner in the Tax, Benefits & Compensation group. Sevcik was most recently a partner with K&L Gates in Chicago. He is the sixth partner and eighteenth attorney to join Perkins Coie’s Chicago office in the last 12 months.

“Rick’s representation of tax-exempt and nonprofit organizations is a great asset to our national business practice,” said Chris Wilson, Office Managing Partner of Perkins Coie’s Chicago office. “Closer to home, his long-time work for many nonprofit institutions continues our firm’s commitment to supporting Chicago’s civic and charitable communities.”

Sevcik represents numerous nonprofit organizations, public charities, private foundations, healthcare systems and colleges and universities. His areas of counsel encompass entity formation, ongoing operations and management, reporting obligations, tax planning and issues that arise in transactions involving exempt organizations. He also has a substantive practice counseling healthcare providers and industry participants, including representing exempt healthcare systems and hospitals in connection with corporate governance, tax compliance, transactions and joint ventures, tax exempt bond financings and IRS reporting and community benefit issues.

“Rick is an extremely well-respected tax attorney and a welcome addition to our practice,” said Susan Daley, chair of Perkins Coie’s Tax, Benefits & Compensation practice. “His extensive experience representing public charities, tax-exempt health care systems, private foundations and colleges and universities is an area of practice that touches on many different practices in our firm.”

Sevcik earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and received his B.A. from the University of Iowa (with highest distinction). He is a frequent author and speaker on issues facing nonprofits, and his presentations have included classification issues facing exempt organizations, higher education tax compliance, corporate governance, internet activities of exempt organizations and the rules impacting private foundations. Sevcik is as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ravinia Festival Association and the Lincoln Park Zoological Society. He serves on the Illinois Attorney General’s Charitable Advisory Council. He is also a member of the American Health Lawyers Association.

Attorneys in Perkins Coie’s Tax, Benefits & Compensation practice focus on advising publicly traded, privately held and tax-exempt entities on a broad range of international, federal, state and local tax matters and on all aspects of employee benefits and executive compensation matters. The firm regularly assist clients with a variety of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, restructurings, financings, real estate transactions, ERISA plan asset investments, workforce reductions and securities disclosures. Perkins Coie’s integrated approach to serving the tax, benefits and compensation needs of its clients also extends to practitioners in many other disciplines, such as corporate, securities, employment and litigation.

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