Overview
The attorneys of the Estate, Trust & Business Planning Practice Group at Maynard Nexsen have a comprehensive Practice, which includes:
- Sophisticated will and trust drafting
- Income, estate, and gift tax planning including federal, state, local, and international tax planning
- Business planning including organization, structuring, and transition
- Charitable planning
- Special needs planning
- Insurance and employee benefits planning
- Tax controversy litigation and dispute resolution
- A wide variety of creative wealth transfer and preservation techniques
- Estate, Trust and Fiduciary Litigation
- Estate, Trust and Fiduciary Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Our estate planning clients include the chief executives of some of Alabama's largest corporations, as well as numerous owners of closely-held businesses. We also regularly assist both individual and corporate fiduciaries with all aspects of estate and trust administration. We currently serve as the primary outside counsel for the institutional and personal trust department of Regions Bank. Several of our lawyers in this Practice Group also represent individual and corporate fiduciaries and beneficiaries in a variety of disputes as part of our Estate, Trust and Fiduciary Litigation Practice Group. Our role as counsel to wealth management companies also includes the drafting and maintenance of policies and procedures manuals; the drafting and review of marketing materials, both from a regulatory and technical standpoint; and strategic planning for corporate opportunity, corporate restructuring and overall risk management.
An important component of our practice has been the representation of closely-held and family businesses, including planning for both their current operation and their future ownership and management. Our business planning attorneys also assist clients with start-up businesses, both operational entities and passive entities, such as those holding real estate and other investment assets.
An overriding objective of our Estate, Trust & Business Planning Practice Group is to integrate personal and business planning in a way that achieves all of our client’s goals, including tax minimization, asset protection, wealth preservation, and family harmony.
The experience within our Estate, Trust & Business Planning Practice Group is extensive and includes a team of lawyers spanning our offices throughout Alabama. Of this group, five hold a Master of Laws in Taxation, and four are Fellows of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, including one past President. Moreover, five members of our group are consistently recognized by The Best Lawyers in America©, including being tapped as the Best Lawyers "Lawyer of the Year" in the area of Trusts and Estates for several years. Members of the group are also listed among Alabama and Mid-South Super Lawyers year after year. They are actively involved in the Bar, and one is past President of the Probate Section of the Birmingham Bar.
