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Mr Kevin Roe

Work Department
Exempt Organizations
Position
Kevin Roe is Counsel in the Firm’s Exempt Organizations Practice. He advises public charities and private foundations on structural and operating issues, including formation, governance, reorganizations, commercial transactions, domestic and international grantmaking, and taxation. He also provides advice to public and private companies on corporate social responsibility programs and to not-for-profit institutions and their donors on charitable giving.
In addition, Kevin represents universities, foundations, hospitals, and cultural institutions in connection with the investment of their endowments, including in the review and negotiation of documentation relating to investments in private funds and similar investment vehicles and in connection with impact investments and mission- and program-related investments.
Kevin is the author of Understanding Private Foundations for Thomson Reuters Practical Law. He is a member of the Government Relations Council of Nonprofit New York and chair of its Federal Taxation subcommittee, and he previously served as Secretary of the Non-Profit Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. In addition to regular CLE instruction and professional presentations, Kevin teaches Nonprofit Law at Fordham University School of Law.
Career
Joined Firm, 2013.
Education
New York University School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude; Order of the Coif, 2013); Yale University (B.A., cum laude, 2006).
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
(Leading associates)Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP provides governance, transactional, strategic, and tax advice to a diverse range of clients on a wide variety of issues, with a focus on private foundations, endowment and investment matters, donor-advised funds, complex gifts, domestic and international grantmaking, as well as artist and collector foundations and art donations. The practice is led by David Shevlin, who divides his time between the New York and Los Angeles offices. Shevlin has extensive experience within charitable organizations in connection with social enterprise and program-related investments, and has been involved in assisting governing bodies on internal investigations. Kevin Roe, based in New York, is a name to note in relation to structural and operational issues, including domestic and international formation, governance, grantmaking and taxation. John Bennett, who supports endowed universities, hospitals, and cultural institutions with investment activities, as well as structural and operational matters from the New York office, was promoted to partner in January 2025.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading associates United States > Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities) United States > Tax
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Project finance
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense