Edward D. Brown is a partner and Co-Chair of the International Wealth and Asset Planning Group at Greenspoon Marder. Mr. Brown has more than twenty-five years of experience in areas of comprehensive estate planning, asset protection and taxation. Twenty years of Mr. Brown’s experience, thirteen as a shareholder, were with the law firm of Engel & Reiman PC, concentrating almost exclusively in the trust-planning practice area, including the crafting, amending, interpreting, analyzing and consulting with regard to the operations of many of these trusts, whether domiciled in the Cook Islands, Nevis or Isle of Man or domestically in states such as Nevada. Mr. Brown was a co-author, with Barry Engel, of the various editions of the Asset Protection Planning Guide, a Wolters Kluwer, CCH publication. He focuses his practice on trust designs that are customized to the clients’ goals of protection of assets for their family and having added flexibility in their comprehensive estate plans that allow maximizing options with regard to changing circumstances and evolving laws.

Mr. Brown is an AV-rated attorney who speaks frequently to professional organizations on a wide range of legal subjects including complex estate planning, asset protection and related subject matters.  He has been, and continues to be, invited to speak across the country.

Bar Admissions

• Colorado

Education

• L.L.M., Taxation, University of Denver, 1986
• J.D., University of Denver, 1984
• B.A., Finance and Accounting, West Virginia University, cum laude, 1981

• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: The Voluntary Capital Gains Tax
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning: Asset Protection Planning: Dispelling the Myths
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: Benefits of Asset Protection Planning
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: Free Asset Protection Planning Strategy
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: Tax Court Rules that Offshore Asset Protection Trust Assets are Not Available to the Taxpayer for Purposes of Paying the IRS
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: Indiana Offers the New Legacy Trust as of July 1, 2019
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: Qualified Opportunity Zone Opportunities–Why Pay Capital Gains Taxes Earlier than Need Be?
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: Qualified Small Business Opportunities-Patience Has Its Rewards
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: Are All US Citizens Created Equal In the Eyes of the IRS?
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: The Tax Benefit That Works Because It Is Not A Tax Strategy
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: The Ideal Gift For A Spouse
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: Asset Protection Without Extravagance
• Greenspoon Marder Client Alert: Automatic July 15 Extended Filing Deadlines MAY NOT Apply To All Affected Returns
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: Protection Planning More Relevant Due To COVID-19
• International Wealth and Asset Planning Group Annual Client Letter
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: Business Opportunity Trusts and Asset Protection
• Potential Estate Tax Law Changes and the Completed Gift Trust Solution
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: Feeling Lucky? Our Six Tips On What To Do If You Win the Lottery – Part 2
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: Income Tax Benefits of Trusts
• Extremely Important Deadline Monday for Tax Filing Requirements for Foreign Trusts
• 2021 Tax Extension – How Does the Extension Affect You?
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: Significant Estate Tax Changes Proposed – Urgent Action May be Needed to Lock
• Be Careful Not to Engage in Fraudulent Non-Transfers
• A Cook Islands Trust that Could Have Succeeded to Protect Assets
• Georgia Has No Asset Protection on its Mind.
• Is Jail Time the Nuclear Attack that Creditors have Against Offshore Asset Protection Trusts?
• European “Blacklist” Status May Hit Home
• New Nevis LLC Law Passes
• LLC Charging Order Protection Against Creditor Causes Debtor to Lose Even More Money: How Can That Be?
• Erosion of Effectiveness of Asset Protection Trusts
• The Offshore Limited Liability Company – Just as Good as a Trust?
• If an Asset Protection Trust is Used as a Receptacle for Assets, Is this Automatically a Fraudulent Transfer?
• The Misfortunes of Not Addressing One’s Fortune
• The Demise of Domestic Asset Protection Trusts?
• Are Most Trusts Really (Potentially) Self-Settled Trusts?
• Updates in Trust and Tax Law Cases-Straight Off the Press: Streightoff Estate Treated as Owning Full Partnership Interest in Partnership instead of merely as an Assignee Interest—Bad for Asset Protection?
• Asset Protection Planning Should Be High On Your Priority List
• I Don’t Need Asset Protection, I Have Insurance!
• Selfish Reasons to be Generous
• Is Asset Protection Planning Immoral?
• Value is in the Eyes of the Creditor
• Think Twice if You Own 100% of a Limited Liability Company
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: Feeling Lucky? Our Six Tips On What To Do If You Win the Lottery.
• Greenspoon Marder International Wealth & Asset Planning Blog: The Importance Of Protecting Your Personal Assets And The Assets Of Your Company Too!