Attorneys:
Andrew Berger
Richard J. Alan Cahan
Julie Ann Garber
L. Ryan Pinder

Tax & Estate Planning



Becker & Poliakoff 's Tax & Estate Planning attorneys  have  strong credentials and extensive experience in this highly specialized area of the law. Members of the group are Board Certified in Tax Law and have  earned a Masters Degree in Tax Law. The Firm serves clients' needs in the following areas:

• Tax planning for individuals in connection with business and personal transactions;
  
  
• Structuring partnerships, limited liability companies, joint ventures, business trusts and other domestic and international business entities;
  
  
• Advising clients regarding estate planning matters, including drafting wills, trusts, family limited partnerships, qualified personal residence trusts, grantor-retained annuity trusts, charitable lead and annuity trusts, charitable remainder trusts, and the creation of foundations and gift-giving programs intended to reduce estate taxes;
  
  
• Offshore estate planning for U.S. and foreign individuals;
  
• Advising non-U.S. taxpayers of the U.S. federal income tax consequences of doing business or making investments in the United States;
  
  
• Providing guidance to U.S. taxpayers on the U.S. federal income tax and the non-U.S. tax consequences of doing business or making investments abroad;
  
  
• Structuring domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring transactions;
  
  
• Advising clients with respect to real estate acquisitions, financing and restructuring-related workout transactions;
  
  
• Advising clients regarding tax issues involved with public offerings and private placements of equity, debt and hybrid securities;
  
  
• Advising clients concerning state and local tax issues;
  
  
• Representing taxpayers in tax examinations, protests before the Internal Revenue Service Appeals Office and in litigation before every federal court;
  
  
• Representing pension funds, foundations, charities and other tax-exempt organizations; and
  
  
• Providing guidance to taxpayers concerning employee benefits, including advice on designing, establishing and maintaining retirement and executive compensation programs.