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Kevin C. Lane advises high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients on estate planning strategies that balance tax efficiency, asset protection and family goals.

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He designs tailored plans that optimize wealth transfer and asset protection for his clients while preserving flexibility for future generations.

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Both a lawyer and certified public accountant, Kevin excels in&nbsp;identifying&nbsp;and implementing tax-advantaged estate planning and wealth transfer strategies. He prepares comprehensive estate plans, including wills, trusts, lifetime gift programs&nbsp;and asset protection structures. His work also includes family office&nbsp;advisory,&nbsp;business succession planning, pre-transaction planning for business sales, corporate recapitalizations, premarital agreements, buy-sell agreements, private annuities, and family limited partnerships. Additionally, he guides executors, guardians and trustees through probate and trust administration.&nbsp;

Kevin has helped clients achieve significant tax savings through strategic planning, such as moving substantial assets outside the estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax system before a major business sale. He emphasizes clear communication, often providing visual summaries of proposed plans to ensure they align with his clients’&nbsp;objectives&nbsp;before drafting. &nbsp;

Prior to practicing law, Kevin spent more than four years as a tax consultant and auditor with Arthur Andersen &amp; Co. That experience gave him firsthand insight into complex financial structures and compliance requirements. 

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Helped a family move ownership of its 100-year-old, family-owned operating company valued at over $500 million outside the estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax system, ensuring tax-free transfer to future generations.&nbsp;

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Handled the pre-transaction planning for a business that was&nbsp;ultimately sold&nbsp;for&nbsp;$1.3 billion. Through creative planning, Kevin was able to move over $900 million from the estate and gift tax system. Utilizing carefully structured trust documents tailored to the family's unique circumstances, Kevin was able to save the family more than $360 million in estate taxes.&nbsp;

Assisted&nbsp;a family in transferring&nbsp;more than $100 million outside the estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax system and now serves as a director of the&nbsp;family’s&nbsp;private trust company.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Resolved a $5 million estate tax dispute for a widow whose late husband’s poorly designed estate plan (prepared by another firm)&nbsp;failed to&nbsp;address tax apportionment&nbsp;issues.&nbsp;&nbsp;Kevin settled the matter&nbsp;with no tax liability for his client.&nbsp;

Designed trusts to&nbsp;acquire&nbsp;valuable business interests from terminating trusts on an income tax-free basis. Through creative planning,&nbsp;Kevin&nbsp;created trusts that were able to&nbsp;acquire&nbsp;those interests and permanently remove the assets from the estate,&nbsp;gift&nbsp;and generation-skipping transfer tax system. The&nbsp;creative plan&nbsp;saved the collective family hundreds of millions&nbsp;of dollars&nbsp;in estate taxes that otherwise would have been imposed on&nbsp;the business&nbsp;interests.

Kevin C. Lane

Kevin C. Lane

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