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Michael Moyers

Schiff Hardin LLP

Michael Kevin Moyers advises on all aspects of estate planning, using sophisticated tax, trust, and charitable planning techniques to implement the most significant tax, business, and personal objectives of his clients. He frequently represents fiduciaries and beneficiaries in litigation relating to trusts and estates, often involving issues relating to interests in a family or other closely held business.

In addition to his legal practice, Mike organized and managed the start-up of a nationally chartered trust company and served as chief operating officer of the trust company for two years.

EXPERIENCE:

  • Employed call options and other leveraging strategies to permit a U.S.-based member of one of Europe’s wealthiest families to engage in tax planning with respect to non-transferable equity interests in offshore businesses.
  • Assisted successful entrepreneurs in transferring their equity in start-up businesses to trusts designed to protect that equity from creditors and estate taxes, while also allowing the entrepreneurs to continue to control the businesses and to enjoy the economic benefits of their start-ups’ growth.
  • Negotiated the settlement of litigation between beneficiaries of a trust that owned the stock of a multigenerational family business so that the interests of beneficiaries who wished to exit the business and diversify their holdings could be separated from the interests of beneficiaries who desired to continue in the business.
  • Restructured the holdings of a wealthy family to separate its operating businesses from its investment activities while maintaining a unitary governance structure and succession plan for the overall family holdings.
  • Represented a major U.S. bank and trust company in litigation relating to ambiguities in a trust for the benefit of disabled persons that threatened loss of the beneficiaries’ government assistance and procuring a favorable judgment that preserved the beneficiaries’ qualification for benefits.
  • Decanted stock in a family S corporation held by outdated irrevocable trusts into modernized trusts with improved management provisions and tax characteristics and secured court approval of the decanting.

EDUCATION:

  • Stanford Law School, J.D., 1991
  • Stanford University, B.A., 1988

BAR ADMISSIONS:

  • Illinois

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

  • Chicago Estate Planning Council, Member
  • Chicago Bar Association, Federal Estate and Gift Tax and Trust Law Committees, Member
  • The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, Lawyers Chapter, Member
  • Stanford Club of Chicago, Board Member (Liaison to Chicago chapter of the Stanford Law School Alumni Association)

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