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Butzel attorney Mark R. Lezotte featured during March 23 webinar; Program will highlight best practices for establishing and maintaining tax-exempt status for healthcare organizations

March 11, 2022
DETROIT, Mich. – Mark R. Lezotte, a co-chair of Butzel’s Health Care Industry Team, will be a featured during a webinar from 1-2:30 p.m. (EDT) on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. The webinar is titled, “Healthcare Entities and LLCs: Leveraging IRS Guidance on Requirements for LLCs to Qualify as Tax-Exempt Entities” and is presented by Strafford Publications, Inc.

The panel will discuss the following:

• IRS Notice 2021-56;
• Implications of notice for healthcare organizations;
• Leveraging LLCs with Section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations; and,
• Best practices for establishing and maintaining tax-exempt status for healthcare organizations.

Based in Butzel’s Detroit office, Lezotte has substantial experience in corporate, healthcare, exempt organization, and tax matters, including corporate and nonprofit governance, hospital-physician ventures and other healthcare transactions, regulatory investigations, tax exemption matters, and a wide range of business and commercial transactions.

He has conducted presentations on topics involving health law, nonprofit organizations, and tax matters, including: healthcare reform issues; board duties and responsibilities; hospital-physician transactions; HIPAA and patient privacy provisions; compliance programs; informed consent in patient care and in clinical research; advance directives and healthcare powers of attorney; charitable giving; and tax aspects of business acquisitions and dispositions.

Lezotte started his legal career with Butzel and then later served as general counsel of Oakwood Healthcare, Inc. (now a part of Beaumont Health), where he was responsible for all of the system’s legal services, supervision of in-house legal staff, supporting strategic initiatives and joint ventures, and the engagement and oversight of outside counsel.

Lezotte has been active in numerous bar and professional organizations. He is a former council member of the State Bar of Michigan Business Law Section and former co-chair of the Nonprofit Corporations Committee, as well as former co-chair of the Health Law Committee of the local Federal Bar Association chapter.

About Butzel

Butzel is one of the leading law firms in Michigan and the United States. It was founded in Detroit in 1854 and has provided trusted client service for more than 160 years. Butzel’s full-service law offices are located in Detroit, Troy, Lansing and Ann Arbor, Mich.; New York, NY; and, Washington, D.C., as well as an alliance office in Beijing. It is an active member of Lex Mundi, a global association of 160 independent law firms. Learn more by visiting www.butzel.com or follow Butzel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/butzel_long