Stephen Gariepy Email & Phone Number

Steve focuses his practice on leading-edge estate planning techniques for business owners, families and nonprofit organizations.

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  National Co-Chair Of Firm'S Estate Planning, Business Succession, Trusts And Estates Group

  Hahn Loeser & Parks Llp

  Jul 2002 - Present - Cleveland, Ohio, United States

  Hahn Loeser & Parks is a 120+ attorney, full-service law firm with a national footprint and international reach, with offices in Cleveland, Columbus, Naples, Fort Myers, San Diego, and Chicago.Steve is the National Co-Chair of the firm's Estate Planning & Business Succession Group. Consisting of 37 professionals, his Group is one of the most respected in the field. He focuses his practice on leading-edge estate planning strategies, particularly for business owners. His ability to design creative and comprehensive plans - and make them practical and understandable - has attracted clients nationwide from the ranks of Forbes 400, business owners, families and nonprofit organizations. A dominant focus of Steve's practice is counseling owners of privately-held companies. He guides business owners through the options of succession planning, leveraged gifting, tax-free sales, valuation discounting, shifting voting control and equity among active and non-active heirs, split-dollar and other insurance plans, incentive compensation, stock transfer restrictions, business reorganizations, buy-outs, asset protection, family offices, and charitable foundations, all with a view toward minimizing income tax, gift tax, estate tax and generation-skipping tax.Steve is often called upon to resolve the difficult issues that arise in the dynamic relationships among family members and business owners. He also assists executors and trustees in the often-complex role of estate and trust administrationKnown by clients and advisors as "an architect of amazing estate plans."