Casey S. Hale

Casey Hale is a partner with Brown & Streza, LLP, a law firm based in Orange County, California. Since 2002, he has exclusively represented nonprofit organizations, advising clients on the complex legal, corporate, and tax matters unique to the nonprofit sector.

Casey’s practice encompasses formation of new entities, organizational governance, international grantmaking and operations, intellectual property, executive compensation and intermediate sanctions (including minister compensation), unrelated business taxable income, structuring and operating subsidiaries and joint ventures, property tax exemption matters, mergers, and dissolutions.

Over his two and a half decades of the practice of law, Casey has formed and obtained tax-exempt status for hundreds of nonprofit organizations (including organizations exempt under IRC §§ 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), and 501(c)(6)), while also providing sophisticated ongoing counsel to mature organizations on complex governance, compliance, and operational matters.

Casey’s clients include private foundations with assets ranging from emerging to over $50 million (including company-sponsored foundations), public charities, supporting organizations, and hybrid entities. His representation of religious organizations includes church denominations, churches ranging from small congregations to megachurches, integrated auxiliaries of churches, international missions organizations, and ministry organizations.