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Cherie L. Evans
Barbara A. Rosen
Gregory E. Siegler
 
Cherie Evans Cherie L. Evans
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cherie@evansrosen.com
415.703.0300

Cherie Evans advises nonprofit organizations with an emphasis on tax and corporate matters. She has counseled hundreds of nonprofit organizations of all sizes, including public charities, private foundations, supporting organizations, social welfare organizations, and social clubs. She has handled successful mergers, tax-exemption applications, and dissolutions. Ms. Evans has assisted clients with issues such as international giving, lobbying, unrelated business income, fiscal sponsorship, self-dealing, and public support. Prior to forming Evans & Rosen, she was an attorney in the San Francisco law firm of Silk, Adler & Colvin and practiced in the area of tax-exempt organizations.

Ms. Evans received her B.A., cum laude, in 1992 from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. She received her J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1995 and her LL.M. in Taxation, with honors, in 2000 from Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco. In 2003, she earned an LL.M. in French and European Community Law from the Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne. During her time in Paris, she interned in the tax department of Landwell & Associés, correspondent law firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

She is admitted to practice before the California and federal bars. She is a member of the American Bar Association’s Nonprofit Corporations Committee, Exempt Organizations Committee, and International Committee on NGO and Not-for-Profit Organizations. She is Vice Chair of Legislation for the California Bar's Nonprofit and Unincorporated Organizations Committee and serves as a panel attorney for California Lawyers for the Arts. Ms. Evans speaks French.