L Ryan Pinder
Tax Law - Domestic and International

Becker & Poliakoff, P.A.'s Tax Law Group consists of experienced attorneys with strong credentials in the tax and estate planning field. Each attorney has 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.

Tax Law Certified Attorney - Florida Bar

L Ryan Pinder
Becker & Poliakoff PA
3111 Stirling Rd
Fort Lauderdale FL 33312-6566
Tel: 954 985-4131
Fax: 954 985-4176
E-mail: rpinder@becker-poliakoff.com

Practice Group
* Corporate and Securities
* Tax & Estate Planning

Areas of Emphasis
* Tax Law - Domestic and International
* Estate Planning
* Corporate Structuring

Ryan Pinder, a shareholder and Board Certified Tax attorney in the Firm's Tax Law Group, assists high net worth individuals as well as domestic and foreign corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies and S corporations in minimizing their tax burden while protecting their hard-earned wealth and assets.

Mr. Pinder advises local, regional, national and international clients in both taxable and tax-free mergers and acquisitions, business combinations, restructurings, private equity transactions, corporate joint ventures and other strategic alliances relating to domestic and international taxation, business valuation and business entity law.

Mr. Pinder counsels high net worth individuals and closely held businesses in forming their investment structures, succession planning and estate planning. His estate planning and wealth preservation representation includes both simple estate plans as well as more comprehensive estate plans that might include family partnership structures and trusts for charitable giving.

In addition to providing comprehensive tax consultation and planning to domestic and international clients, Mr. Pinder is experienced in representing large multi-national corporations in corporate governance and compliance issues. Mr. Pinder is also experienced in all areas of business entity representation from the initial formation to asset and stock sales and business combinations.

His experience includes negotiating and preparing corporate documents including entity formation, partnership agreements, employment/consulting agreements, stock purchase agreements, licensing and subscription agreements. He also advises clients regarding the international tax consequences of various inbound and outbound transactions and reorganizations. He devises estate tax plans for individuals including the following estate planning documents: pour over wills, revocable living trusts, durable powers of attorneys, living wills, health care surrogates, guardianship appointments and irrevocable life insurance trusts. Additionally, he assists corporate clients with structuring their operations in a tax efficient manner including issues relating to mergers and acquisitions, corporate structuring and e-commerce planning.
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