Lisa Schaures is a partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP in Seattle. She counsels family offices, privately held companies, social ventures, and nonprofit organizations through corporate and tax issues at every stage of growth. With an eye toward understanding her clients’ broader business goals, Schaures advises her clients on corporate structures, purchases, mergers and acquisitions, corporate conversions, and joint ventures. She has developed creative strategies for complex tax concerns and deferred compensation as well as navigated potential conflicts of interest. In addition, she counsels nonprofit organizations on governance, tax-exempt compliance, lobbying restrictions, fundraising law, and collaboration with other nonprofits and for-profit corporations.