Brittany Cvetanovich
Brittany Cvetanovich joined MIT as Counsel in May 2025. Her areas of focus at MIT include tax, charitable giving and corporate governance issues, including joint venture agreements, gift agreements, analysis of unrelated business taxable income issues, tax analysis of investments for MITIMCo, and employee and payroll tax issues.
Before joining MIT, Brittany was the tax and charitable giving attorney at The Ohio State University from 2022 to 2025, and was an attorney at Ropes & Gray from 2011 to 2022. During her eleven years at Ropes & Gray, she focused her practice on matters for tax-exempt organizations, including formation, reorganization, joint ventures with for-profit entities, investment activities and partnership tax matters. Brittany also advised a wide range of private investment fund managers and investors, including universities and foundations, on tax issues relating to the formation and operation of private equity and hedge funds. She also maintained an active pro bono practice that included the successful representation of innovative community organizations and impact investment organizations seeking tax-exempt status, as well as advising human trafficking survivors on tax considerations relevant to civil settlements obtained against their traffickers. Brittany began her legal career as a clerk for Judge Sandra L. Lynch of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Brittany is a nationally recognized speaker on investment structuring and other tax issues for higher education and other nonprofit institutions, and serves as co-chair of the Higher Education Taxation Institute. Brittany graduated from Michigan State University in 2007, where she studied history and economics, and from Harvard Law School in 2010.
Practice Areas
Brittany Cvetanovich specializes in the following practice areas.