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Northwest Corner is divided into three components, officially named Wasserstein Hall, Caspersen Student Center, and the Clinical Wing. The entire Corner is now frequently referred to as “Wasserstein Caspersen Clinical,” or “WCC” for short. The Clinical Wing serves as a potential naming opportunity for a major donor...
...School alumnus Finn M. W. Caspersen gave $30 million—the largest gift in the Law School’s history—to fund a wing of the Northwest Corner. After he committed suicide in 2009, media outlets reported that he was under investigation by the IRS for tax evasion, but McCrossan said there has been no indication that his gift to the Law School will be clawed back due to the IRS inquiries...
...Caspersen Student Center was largely modeled on the Business School’s Spangler Hall and will include a spacious lounge area and increased dining facilities...
Wasserstein’s death comes just weeks after that of another HLS philanthropist—Finn M.W. Caspersen, who donated over $30 million to the Law School and chaired its $476 million capital campaign last year...
Harvard Law School’s biggest donor, who died last week in an apparent suicide, may have owed up to $100 million in back taxes and fines, the New York Times reported this week. Finn M.W. Caspersen, who gave over $30 million to the Law School and tens of millions more to other philanthropic enterprises, may have been implicated in a sweeping federal investigation of offshore bank accounts, said the Times’ anonymous source. In recent months, Swiss banking giant UBS agreed to turn over the names of thousands of its American clients to the Internal Revenue Service...