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Benjamin T. White
Ben White is Chair of the firm's Exempt Organizations Group. He is also a co-leader of the Wealth Planning Group. His practice emphasizes exempt organizations as well as estate and tax planning. As Chair of the largest and most comprehensive exempt organizations practice in the region, Mr. White is widely known for his successful representation of exempt organizations with intractable tax problems. His clients include international, national, regional, and local tax-exempt organizations located throughout the United States and in other countries. These organizations range from public charities and foundations, to schools, colleges, and universities, to hospitals and other health care organizations, to scientific and medical research organizations, to business and professional associations and chambers of commerce, to social clubs, to virtually every other kind of tax-exempt organization. With close to 30 years of experience in the area, Mr. White counsels extensively both with exempt organizations and with lawyers and accountants representing exempt organizations; and he provides strategic advice on the array of tax, business, cultural, and political issues that are distinct to exempt organizations. Mr. White also maintains an active wealth planning practice, representing some of the wealthiest individuals and families in the Southeast and providing counseling to individual and institutional trustees, executors, and personal representatives throughout the region. Mr. White is a prodigious lecturer and a prolific writer on topics ranging from exempt organizations to wealth planning to charitable gift planning to other tax and fiduciary subjects. He has lectured throughout the country for thousands of hours both to lay people and to professional advisors. Mr. White is the co-author of a two-volume text, Georgia Estate Planning, Will Drafting and Estate Administration Forms – Practice, which is updated annually, and author of Foundation Desk Reference: A Compendium of Private Foundation Rules, which is updated periodically and used throughout the country. The author of numerous other articles and papers, Mr. White's publications on taxes, wills, estate planning, and exempt organizations are widely read both by lay persons and by professional tax advisors. Mr. White is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a founding member of the faculty of the American Institute for Philanthropic Studies, and has served as Chairman of the Fiduciary Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia and as President of the Harvard Law School Association of Georgia. Mr. White is a member of the Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law of the American Bar Association and also serves as a member of the Exempt Organizations Committee of the American Bar Association Tax Section. He is also a member of the Atlanta Tax Forum and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Estate Planning Council. He is profiled in The Best Lawyers in America and in Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers. Long active in community affairs, Mr. White has served as Chairman of the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund, and serves on the Boards of a number of foundations and other charitable organizations. He is a Past President of the Alliance Theatre Company and served as a Trustee of the Woodruff Arts Center for many years. In 1989 he received the Fulton County Arts Council Salute to the Arts Award. Mr. White received his J.D. degree, cum laude, from the Harvard Law School in 1973 and graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina in 1969. He graduated from The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut in 1964. Benjamin T. White Alston & Bird LLP One Atlantic Center 1201 West Peachtree Street Atlanta, GA 30309-3424 USA Phone: 404-881-7488 Fax: 404-881-7777 bwhite@alston.com Practice Areas Exempt Organizations Wealth Planning Education Harvard University (J.D., 1973) University of North Carolina (A.B., 1969) Admitted to Practice 1973, Georgia