Kenneth D. Alderfer
Senior Counsel
Areas of Focus
- International Tax
- Investment Management & Transactional Tax
- Tax
- Tax-Exempt Organizations
- Tax Policy
- Health Care Tax
- Health Care & Life Sciences
- Private Client & Family Office Services
- Family Office & Private Wealth
- Private Capital
- Provides tax and corporate advice to tax-exempt organizations.
- Handles tax controversies, including Internal Revenue Service Coordinated Examination program audits and tribal government tax-exempt bond audits.
- Advises health care clients, as well as religious organizations and American Indian tribal governments.
Ken Alderfer advises tax-exempt organizations on transactions, tax controversy matters, legislation and regulations. He provides advice on nonprofit corporation and charitable trust law, as well as other legal issues related to the operation of nonprofit organizations.
Ken’s clients include hospitals and other entities in the health care industry, public charities and private foundations, social welfare organizations, trade organizations and Native American tribal governments. He has also advised more than a dozen men’s and women’s religious institutes in restructuring their U.S. and international operations and on related tax, nonprofit corporate and charitable trust law matters.
Ken’s representations include:
- Forming tax-exempt corporations and charitable trusts.
- Seeking rulings and determinations from tax authorities.
- Structuring and negotiating transactions and agreements.
- Providing strategic tax advice regarding activities in the United States and in foreign countries.
- Representing clients in tax controversies with federal, state and local taxation authorities.
EducationJ.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1986
B.S., Eastern Mennonite University, magna cum laude, 1979
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1986
B.S., Eastern Mennonite University, magna cum laude, 1979
Bar AdmissionsDistrict of Columbia
Virginia
District of Columbia
Virginia
- Member, Exempt Organizations Committee, Tax Section, American Bar Association.
- Member, Tax and Finance Section, American Health Lawyers Association.
- “The Federal Group Tax Exemption—Truth, Rumor, Fantasy and Reality,” Resource Center for Religious Institutes 2016 National Conference, October 2016.
- “Practices to Minimize Conflict in Association Governance,” ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership Annual Law Symposium, October 2016.
- “Planning for Your Community’s Future Care Needs: Church Plan or Charitable Trust,” Resource Center for Religious Institutes National Conference, October 2015.
- “How Trusts Really Work,” Resource Center for Religious Institutes National Conference, October 2015.
