Norah Jones is an attorney in the Tax-Exempt Organizations Group at Quarles & Brady LLP. She focuses her practice on advising public charities, private foundations, hospitals, trade associations, and other tax-exempt entities on a variety of legal and tax matters, such as

• Advising clients regarding the creation of new tax-exempt organizations and the application for appropriate federal and state tax exemptions for such organizations.


• Advising private foundations regarding complex program-related investment matters, including loans, guarantees, and direct investments.


• Counseling clients with respect to proper structuring of multi-entity coalitions and collaborations.


• Advising clients regarding significant and complex gifts.


• Drafting and reviewing corporate governance documents.


• Advising organizations with respect to maintaining tax-exempt and public charity status.


• Counseling clients regarding unrelated business income matters and structuring.


• Advising organizations regarding compliance with tax laws for tax-exempt organizations, including excess benefit transaction rules and private foundation excise tax laws.


• Representing clients engaged in Internal Revenue Service audits.


• Representing clients seeking rulings from the Internal Revenue Service.


• Assisting private foundations with respect to grants to international organizations and to individuals, expenditure responsibility, and self-dealing.