Bruce E. Bell has a general commercial practice concentrating in the corporate and tax areas. He serves as general counsel for many closely-held businesses and represents numerous high-net-worth individuals.
Bruce’s corporate practice focuses on drafting and negotiating contracts in a variety of areas. He also has considerable experience in purchasing and selling businesses and handling other sophisticated business transactions.
Bruce’s estate plan practice includes counseling clients on the tax and non-tax aspects of business succession planning, wealth transfers and other estate matters. In addition to providing routine estate planning services, he counsels clients in sophisticated tax strategies such as family partnerships, generation-skipping tax planning, charitable trusts and other matters. An important aspect of many such engagements involves protecting assets from creditors where he regularly counsels clients on such matters.
Bruce also has practiced extensively in the employee benefits area. He has considerable experience in preparing retirement and other benefit plans.
- Deducting Legal Fees Incurred in Employment Disputes
- Reevaluating Insured Buy Sell Agreements
- Avoiding Late Filing Penalties
- 401(k) Rollovers
- What’s the Tax Impact if You Should Gift Stock at Below Your Purchase Price
- Gifting Basis Article
- Loss Deduction on Gifted Property
- Comparing Tax Consequences of Mutual Funds and EFT
- IRA Withdrawal Strategy
- Bargain Sales to Charity
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