Heidi Christianson

Heidi is a Shareholder with the firm and represents health care and nonprofit entities. Her clients include hospital systems, social service organizations, private and corporate foundations, trade associations, educational institutions, and nonprofit health plans.

Heidi’s work includes counseling her nonprofit clients regarding formation, corporate, governance and tax issues, regulatory compliance, mergers, joint ventures, collaborations, member issues, charitable solicitation, donor and endowment fund issues, executive compensation, and corporate restructuring and dissolution.

She also advises health care entities with respect to compliance matters including billing and collection regulations, community health needs assessments, patient issues and compliance with federal requirements for tax exemption.

Heidi advises her clients regarding changes in the use of an endowment or other donor restricted fund. She has prepared and filed complex “cy pres” petitions to allow her charitable clients to use an endowment fund or other restricted asset in a manner that was not contemplated by the donor or allowed by the original donor agreement.

Prior to beginning a career in private practice, Heidi was an Assistant Attorney General in the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office where she regulated charities and private foundations.

Heidi is co-chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Nonprofit Committee and a member of the Executive Council of the Business Law Section of the Minnesota State Bar Association. Since 2005, Heidi has co-chaired the Minnesota CLE Nonprofit Conference. She is a regular speaker on tax issues for nonprofits, governance and charitable solicitation. Heidi serves on the Boards of Directors of Propel Nonprofits and her neighborhood association.

Heidi served as the Firm’s fifth President from 2019-2022.