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Estate Planning for Business Owners: Buy-Sell Agreements, Non-Family Interests, Valuation Considerations, Tax Issues

Recording of a 90-minute CLE/CPE video webinar with Q&A

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Conducted on Tuesday, May 6, 2025

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This CLE/CPE webinar will guide trusts and estates counsel on critical issues stemming from business interests in estate planning and administration. The panel will discuss considerations for estate planning and administration for business owners, key provisions for buy-sell agreements, valuation challenges, non-family business interests, tax challenges, and other legal and administrative obstacles of business interests in estates and trusts.

Description

Privately owned business interests can complicate estates requiring attorneys and advisers to consider complex tax laws, family dynamics, and the circumstances of the business and its owners. Estate planners must take measures to minimize income, estate, and gift taxes so that the business interest doesn't create issues for the estate and beneficiaries.

Effective estate planning for business owners maximizes the value of their business, minimizes taxes, and provides for the continuity of business succession. This involves an in-depth understanding of planning methods, legal nuances, and related issues, such as business valuation challenges, the use of buy-sell agreements and trusts, tax considerations in succession planning, lifetime transfers, and other priority items.

Listen as our panel discusses critical issues stemming from business interests in estate planning and administration and offers practical techniques to minimize income, estate, and gift taxes. The panel will also discuss methods to overcome administrative obstacles of business interests in estates and trusts.

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Outline

  1. Key planning considerations for business owners
  2. Valuation issues
  3. Challenges of co-owned or non-family business interests
  4. Succession planning
  5. Special tax considerations

Benefits

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • What are the critical considerations for estate planning for business owners?
  • What are the most common valuation challenges and techniques to overcome them?
  • What are the estate planning and administration challenges for co-owned or non-family business interests?
  • What are the factors to consider in effectively implementing a succession plan?
  • What are the tax challenges and potential pitfalls to avoid?

Faculty

Horowitz, Kenneth
Kenneth A. Horowitz, CLU® ,ChFC®, RICP®, AEP®

Financial Coach
Integrated Benefit Consultants

Mr. Horowitz entered the life insurance business in 1989 after a short career in the commercial real estate...  |  Read More

Lloyd, Terry
Terry Lloyd

Managing Director
Finance Scholars Group

Mr. Lloyd, Managing Director, has been handling complex valuation assignments for over 30 years. His practice...  |  Read More

Suttmann, Chelsea
Chelsea J. Suttmann

Shareholder and Managing Director
Barulich Dugoni & Suttmann Law Group

Ms. Suttmann is a Shareholder and Managing Director at Barulich Dugoni Suttmann & Cummins Law Group, Inc. She has...  |  Read More

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