John L. Stansbury

John L. Stansbury advises ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families on efficiently transferring and preserving wealth across multiple generations. As a member of Holland & Knight's Private Wealth Services Group in its Miami office, John works closely with clients and advisors using a collaborative team approach to design and implement sophisticated planning structures that address issues and challenges often encountered by clients with substantial wealth.

John provides counsel on federal wealth transfer tax minimization; establishing and administering family offices and private family trust companies (PFTCs); asset protection from potential creditor claims; administering estates and trusts; serving as a fiduciary; enforcing the rights of estate and trust beneficiaries; IRS audits and disputes, as well as tax compliance and reporting; and many other legal issues that arise in the private wealth space. He assesses existing planning structures and makes recommendations for potential updates and improvements, while also identifying and explaining planning opportunities that may have been previously unexplored. John's experience encompasses a broad spectrum of topics in his field, particularly in connection with lifetime "phase one" base planning (revocable trusts, last wills and testaments, and advanced directives for financial, healthcare and end-of-life decisions) and "phase two" advanced planning, including family offices, PFTCs, intentionally defective grantor trusts (IDGTs), dynastic spendthrift trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs), domestic and offshore asset protection trusts, and prenuptial and post-marital agreements, to name a few.

By connecting planning, administration and dispute work in his legal practice, John helps families with significant wealth protect what they have built and carry their intentions forward for many generations.