Industries Served

Non-Profit and Religious

The Firm recognizes the importance of nonprofit organizations to our local and statewide communities. Our Firm attorneys have a wealth of experience when it comes to handling the legal issues of nonprofit organizations. McGuire, Wood & Bissette, P.A. provides its nonprofit clients comprehensive legal services. Our legal team lends expertise to individuals, institutions, families and businesses seeking to accomplish standard nonprofit objectives. In addition to a broad range of traditional corporate legal services provided to such clients, we also provide tax expertise to tax-exempt organizations. Our clients include numerous types of nonprofit corporations, private foundations, hospitals and health organizations, public charities and churches.

Representative Clients
Asheville Merchants Corporation
Asheville Symphony
Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
Community Foundation of WNC, Inc.
Givens Estates, Inc.
Grove Arcade Public Market Foundation, Inc.
Mountain Retreat Association
North Carolina Arboretum
Western Carolina Industries (WCI, Inc.)

Legal Team
W. Louis Bissette, Jr.
  • Charitable Organizations and Foundations
  • Board Counsel
M. Charles "Chuck" Cloninger
John Nicholas Fleming
Richard A. Kort
  • Entity Formation and Taxation
  • Charitable Organizations and Foundations
  • Board Counsel
Harris M. Livingstain
  • Entity Formation and Taxation
  • Charitable Organizations and Foundations
  • Board Counsel
Doris Phillips Loomis
  • Charitable Organizations
  • Board Counsel
Rendi L. Mann-Stadt
Joseph P. McGuire
Grant B. Osborne
Jeffrey J. Owen
  • Entity Formation and Taxation
  • Charitable Organizations and Foundations
Douglas Owen Thigpen
Sarah Sparboe Thornburg
T. Douglas Wilson, Jr.
Richard Austin Wood, Jr. (Retired)
  • Charitable Organizations and Foundations
  • Board Counsel