Staff Profile
David S. Chernoff
Associate General Counsel
Contact - dchernof@macfound.org
David Chernoff is Associate General Counsel of the Foundation.
He deals with federal tax questions, prepares documents for program-related investments, works on sales of property and other transactions and writes leases for the Marquette Building. He is also involved in maintaining government approvals for the Foundation's foreign offices.
Chernoff joined the Foundation's legal staff in 1984. Prior to that, he was a partner in the Chicago law firm of Vihon, Fuchs, Temple & Berman, where he did corporate, contract, transactional and real estate work, as well as litigation in the U.S. Customs Court. He serves on the Illinois Attorney General's Charitable Trust Advisory Council, is an Adjunct Professor at The John Marshall Law School, and also chairs a task force of the Exempt Organizations Committee of the ABA's Section on Taxation dealing with program-related investments.
Chernoff has lectured and written articles on private foundation tax and governance issues, as well as real estate. The Donors Forum of Chicago published his book, Duties and Responsibilities of Directors and Trustees of Illinois Private Foundations. He received both his undergraduate and J.D. degrees from the University of Chicago.
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