Catherine C. Oetgen
Associate
Practice Areas
Catherine C. Oetgen’s practice includes corporate, tax, governance, regulatory, nonprofit fundraising, and intellectual property law issues for a broad range of nonprofits and for-profit entities.
Ms. Oetgen is highly skilled in the formation and dissolution of charitable organizations and regularly handles matters to obtain nonprofit tax exemptions for charities on the federal and state level. She has participated in regulatory investigations and settlement negotiations on behalf of clients with the New York Attorney General’s Charities Bureau.
Experience
Ms. Oetgen served as a law intern with the New York Attorney General’s Charities Bureau, as a summer associate with Goldman Sachs, and as the mediation program coordinator for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.
Professional & Nonprofit Affiliations
Ms. Oetgen serves on The Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Nonprofit Organizations Committee.
Publications
Ms. Oetgen is the co-author of a chapter on legal issues facing volunteer board members in the book Governance for Health Care Providers: The Call to Leadership, a noted resource on areas critical to health care governance.
She has also written articles on nonprofit-related legal issues which have been published in the Nonprofit Times, including “How Much is Too Much? Participation in Political Activities for Nonprofits”, “Conflicting Interests: Practical Tips on What to Do and How to Do It.” and “Filer Beware: Excess Benefit Transactions and the Revised Form 990”.
Bar Admissions
Education
- J.D., Brooklyn Law School, 2006
- B.A., Northwestern University, 1999
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