International Estate Planning
SNR Denton’s Trusts and Estates lawyers are experienced at
advising high-net-worth US and non-US persons with respect to the
estate, gift and generation-skipping tax consequences of their
ownership of US and non-US assets. Our lawyers coordinate worldwide
estate and gift tax planning strategies with local counsel to
provide tax-efficient structures for holding and transferring
assets. Our clients include US persons with substantial assets
outside of the US, non-US persons with substantial assets in the
United States, and wealthy international families with US and
non-US family members. We advise US citizens and long-term
residents on the tax consequences of expatriating and renouncing
their citizenship or residency. We also provide pre-immigration and
pre-residency advice to non-US persons contemplating moving to the
US.
Our lawyers advise US persons concerning the US income tax
treatment of property received from non-US trusts and estates and
of the US tax reporting requirements as to their interests in
non-US trusts and estates, as well as gifts received from non-US
persons. We also advise US persons of the US tax reporting
requirements with respect to their direct and indirect ownership
interests of non-US assets. We represent US persons in connection
with their voluntary disclosure of unreported offshore accounts and
other assets before the Internal Revenue Service and state and
local taxing authorities.
We advise non-US persons residing outside of the US concerning
their US estate, gift and generation-skipping tax exposure with
respect to their direct or indirect ownership of tangible and
intangible real and personal property in the US (for example, US
real estate, shares of US corporations, debt obligations issued by
US corporations or by the US government, art located in the US,
etc.). We also advise non-US. persons residing outside of the US
concerning the US estate, gift and generation-skipping tax exposure
with respect to assets passing to their family members residing or
domiciled in the US.
We also advise US and non-US persons on establishing
sophisticated tax-efficient structures, including foreign and US
trusts and other entities for the benefit of US family members of
non-US persons, which are designed to provide assets protection
planning and to reduce US and non-US estate, gift,
generation-skipping and US federal, state and local income taxes.
We also create US and non-US structures to avoid probate in the US
as to US-situs assets owned by non-US persons.