Sarasota Immigrants Can Find Professional Legal Advocate with Greg Band

About Greg Band

Greg Band is a Sarasota native.  He obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a Varsity letterman in Tennis.  His Juris Doctor is from the University of Florida Law School where he served on the law review – a distinguishing honor for law students.  After UF, he obtained a Masters in Tax Law from New York University School of Law.  His practice areas include estate planning, probate, asset protection, charitable giving, taxation, and business law.

Estate Planning and Probate

Sarasota immigrants often present unique and complicated estate planning issues.  With many professionals and business owners coming from overseas and retaining their overseas assets.  It takes a highly capable and dedicated attorney to know how to find the right individual solutions.

Mr. Band understands the unique situations of immigrants when it comes to estate planning.  His experience includes work with high net worth individuals with multinational assets.  Band Law Group has a sophisticated and creative trusts and estates practice with decades of experience in helping clients transfer wealth in a tax efficient manner.  Their attorneys assist individuals with traditional estate planning documents such as wills, revocable trusts, residence trusts and insurance trusts.  They also regularly structure and implement more complex techniques including:

• Charitable planning; 
• Estate freezing strategies such as installment sales to grantor trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs) and self-canceling installment notes;
• Generation-skipping transfer tax planning;
• Planning for business succession;
• Valuation techniques designed to produce lower tax values upon transfer through the use of family limited partnerships or limited liability companies. 

Individual & Corporate Taxation

The complex and far-reaching US Tax Code can be daunting for anyone, especially immigrants.  The IRS taxes US residents and citizens on worldwide income and can tax non-resident aliens on income gained in the US.  It takes a highly specialized and experienced attorney to navigate the law.

Greg Band’s firm has extensive experience in handling a broad range of tax matters for businesses, executives and owners of businesses, including the following:

• Structuring tax-free reorganizations, including tax-free spinoff transactions.
• Structuring the purchase and sale of businesses and the financing of business transactions for regular corporations, subchapter S corporations, and venture capital funds.
• Structuring real estate and real estate financing transactions with partnerships and limited liability companies, including real estate syndications and like-kind exchange transactions.
• Planning estate and business succession, including advice to owners of businesses about strategies for transferring the ownership of their business to family members and/or successor management so as to minimize income, gift and estate taxes.

Elder Law

Many immigrants come to Sarasota in their golden years, attracted by the ideal climate and abundant sunshine.  Immigrants’ latter years also present many unique legal challenges made more complicated by their far-flung assets and competing national laws.

Greg Band’s elder law practice focuses on the diverse and unique needs of senior citizens.  They work with clients to help them address current issues and anticipate evolving needs as they grow older:

• Guardianship and Conservatorship
• Retirement, Survivor and Pension Benefits
• Incapacitation and Disability
• Livings Wills 
• Social Security Disability Claims and Appeals

Contact Information

To assist in these and other areas of legal expertise, Sarasota immigrants can contact Mr. Band and his associates via:

• Phone: 941-917-0505
• Email: gband@bandlawgroup.com

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Written by Chris Jaensch

Attorney P. Christopher Jaensch received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History in 1992 and a Juris Doctor degree in 1995 from the University of Florida. While at UF, he was a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa Society and Florida Blue Key, the oldest and most prestigious leadership honorary in the state of Florida.

Mr. Jaensch is a member of the Florida Bar, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and the Sarasota Bar Association. He has served as President of the Sarasota-Manatee International Trade Club and served as Regional Vice Chair, Tampa Bay, for the Central Florida Chapter of AILA. He was a member of City of Sarasota Charter Review Committee and has been active in several local organizations, including the influential Laurel Park Neighborhood Association in downtown Sarasota.

Mr. Jaensch has over 18 years of experience in the field of immigration and nationality law and focuses his practice on four primary categories (a) investors and entrepreneurs, (b) business executives, managers and professionals, (c) amateur and professional athletes and coaches and (d) performing artists and immigrants with extraordinary ability.