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FIRM SERVICES Page Sections - The firm practices in the area of asset protection planning, including client evaluation, plan design and implementation. Chris Riser and Jay Adkisson are the authors of the best selling "Asset Protection: Concepts and Strategies" (McGraw-Hill 2004). Chris Riser is currently the Chairman of the American Bar Association's Asset Protection Planning Committee. The firm practices in the area of captive insurance and alternative risk management, including captive feasibility, captive structure design, formation and licensing. Jay Adkisson is the author of the best selling "Captive Insurance Companies: An Introduction to Captives, Closely-Held Insurance Companies and Risk Retention Groups." Chris Riser also has substantial experience in captive insurance formation and management. The firm also opines on certain tax issues relating to captives. The firm practices in the area of estate planning, and has pioneered advanced techniques involving beneficiary-taxed trusts, self-cancelling installment notes, and private annuities. The firm's attorneys are active in numerous national, state and county estate planning groups. The firm practices in the area of international planning, including international estate planning, outbound business and investment planning for U.S. persons, and inbound business and investment planning for foreign persons. Chris Riser has been admitted as a Solicitor in the United Kingdom. The firm practices in the area of taxation, including general business and personal tax planning. The firm also evaluates tax planning and structuring by other firms, gives tax opinions as appropriate, and assists the firm's clients in obtaining private letter rulings and similar proactive protective actions. - The firm assists its clients in performing due diligence on investments and financial proposals, including venture capital and bridge financing investments, hedge funds, international investments, treasury instruments, so-called high-yield interest programs, and domestic and international life insurance and annuities. The firm assists financial firms with certain of their compliance needs in the areas of entity ownership, international structures and fund transfers, money-laundering detection and prevention, and related compliance issues. The firm also makes compensated presentations to the compliance personnel of these firms to educate them about these issues. - Collections - Creditor & Debtor Litigation The firm engages in debt collection, interstate enforcement of judgments, charging order litigation, issues involving fraudulent transfers, veil-piercing, alter ego, and successor corporation liability. The firm both attacks and defends asset protection plans. The firm engages in general commercial litigation on behalf of its clients. Securities and Investment Advisor Fraud and Malpractice Litigation The firm engages in securities litigation, including both the prosecution and defense of securities fraud claims, and related claims such as elder abuse via the purchase of inappropriate insurance or investment products. |
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