Lucas R. Deppermann
Lucas Deppermann is a member of Kirton McConkie’s Tax section. His practice focuses on advising U.S. tax-exempt organizations on federal tax, corporate governance, and investment matters.
Lucas advises charities and other tax-exempt organizations on complex tax compliance, corporate governance, and investment matters. His clients include foundations, endowments, and nonprofit institutional investors, as well as a broad range of public charities, including supporting organizations, donor-advised fund sponsors, and religious and educational institutions. Lucas advises public charities on formation and operational issues, including maintaining tax-exemption and public charity status, fundraising, grantmaking, transactions with taxable entities, and unrelated business activities. He also counsels private foundations on program-related investing and compliance with the foundation excise tax rules.
A substantial part of Lucas’s practice involves representing U.S. tax-exempt organizations as limited partners in private investment funds, reviewing and negotiating fund agreements and side letters and advising on economic terms, governance and investor protections, conflicts, reporting, unrelated business taxable income, and the use of alternative investment vehicles and blocker structures.
Education
- Washington University School of Law, JD, summa cum laude, 2015
- Order of the Coif
- Member of Washington University Law Review
- Dean’s List 2012-2015
- Honor Scholar Award
- Cali Award recipient for highest grade in class for:
- Corporate Taxation
- Advanced Corporate Taxation
- Partnership Taxation
- Bankruptcy
- Torts
- Brigham Young University, BA, History, 2012
Experience
Prior to joining Kirton McConkie, Mr. Deppermann was an associate in the New York office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrisson LLP.
- New York
- Utah
- Mountain States Super Lawyers Rising Star: Tax (2023-2026)
- Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America – Tax Law (2021-2022, 2026)
- Utah Legal Elite: Up & Coming (2018-2021)