International Private Client Group

Your complex international legal issues regarding international taxation, business, cross-border transactions, immigration, estate planning and wealth transfer and probate administration require experienced legal counsel. Holland & Knight’s International Private Client Group, a global network of skilled attorneys, offers sophisticated counsel customized to address all of your unique circumstances at home and abroad. We advise clients on the multitude of strategies for protecting and building your wealth and assets, including establishing and operating trusts, tax planning to mitigate tax impact, business and wealth structuring, compliance with complex regulations, organization and reorganization of closely held companies, and onshore and offshore investing.

Global Business Clients

Our International Private Client Group serves high net worth clients ranging from U.S. entrepreneurs doing business in foreign countries to foreign and multinational clients doing business in the U.S. as well as many wealthy families located around the world.

International Estate Planning and Administration

Experienced in estate law and trust law, our International Private Client Group offers international estate planning and cross-border wealth transfer tailored to the unique needs of each of our clients, including coordinating your estate and gift tax planning in the U.S. and abroad, preparing wills and trusts in the U.S. and coordinating with foreign counsel to prepare your foreign estate plans, as well as related tax filings associated with such planning.

We also can advise you on offshore trust planning and international asset protection planning, as well as premarital and postmarital agreements concerning assets in the event of divorce and/or death. So much of this planning is highly dependent on the facts of the particular client, and requires experience and coordination. Holland & Knight attorneys work closely with local counsel to advise clients in protecting their wealth in a tax efficient manner, with appropriate regard for future potential needs of the client and changes in the client's residence.

International Business and Tax Planning

Our International Private Client Group advises U.S. entrepreneurs on foreign activities as well as foreign individuals and their companies with investment or business activities in the U.S. With experience in international tax law and international banking law, we assist clients in creating business entities and structuring transactions that comply with applicable federal and state requirements while minimizing the aggregate tax burden and filing requirements imposed under applicable international statutes and tax treaties.

Multinational clients also regularly seek our advice on structuring operations to minimize U.S. taxes and filing requirements as well as planning for the tax-efficient repatriation of future earnings and reallocation of capital.

In addition, our lawyers assist growing U.S. companies with expanding business operations abroad. We have extensive experience in structuring cross-border financial transactions to minimize subpart F income and the applicability of the passive foreign investment company (PFIC) rules, and to maximize foreign tax credit relief for non-U.S. activities.

U.S. and foreign individuals with real estate investments in the U.S. and abroad look to Holland & Knight's private wealth attorneys to guide them in all aspects of maximizing their holdings. Our tax lawyers coordinate with local counsels abroad regarding the purchase, structuring and taxation of real estate.

Tax Controversies

We represent clients on all types of tax deficiencies and refund claims involving:

• income taxes
• payroll taxes
• excise taxes
• franchise taxes
• estate and gift taxes
• property taxes, sales and use taxes
• related penalties and interest

If you face a tax dispute, our objective is to resolve your dispute as quickly and efficiently as possible. Our attorneys are well-versed in finance litigation. To assist you, our experienced tax controversies and litigation lawyers from across the U.S. appears before all federal, state and local taxing authorities, courts and other administrative tribunals.

International and Cross-Border Transactions

You can rely on our vast practical knowledge in specialized international transactions and disputes. Our extensive cultural familiarities and foreign language capabilities improve efficiency and directly benefit our clients by avoiding expensive coordination mistakes, delays and confusion that frequently frustrate commercial law firms attempting to lead transactions outside the U.S.

Our lawyers engage in business counseling for foreign corporations establishing a presence in the U.S, including:

• coordinating entry into U.S. markets
• trade issues
• tax-efficient structuring
• choice of and establishment of entity
• licenses to transact business
• leases
• employment agreements
• payroll

Immigration

Large multinational corporations, start-up companies and individual clients are served by our immigration lawyers and practitioners. We represent both foreign and domestic corporate clients, including well-known entertainers and athletes, entrepreneurs, professionals, investors and those looking to be united with family members in the U.S. In addition to helping clients obtain visas for their employees or themselves, our group advises businesses on compliance with federal and state employment eligibility verification procedures as well as visa-related aspects of corporate transactions.

Representation Across Private Wealth Spectrum

Our attorneys are adept at counseling clients on the full range of private wealth management matters. Our team consists of savvy and aggressive attorneys who specialize in such areas as trust law, estate law, international banking law, tax law, finance litigation, tax litigation and immigration. With our depth of legal and business experience and understanding of the business and personal issues that affect our clients’ lives, Holland & Knight’s International Private Client Group is uniquely positioned to provide counsel in the arena of private wealth services.