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AI Today in 5: August 11, 2025, The ACHILLES Project Episode

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the AI Today In...more

Conyers

Cayman STAR Trusts: A Powerful Structure for Employee Benefit Trusts and Master Insurance Policies

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The Cayman Islands is a premier jurisdiction for innovative trust structures, and its STAR trusts have gained prominence for their flexibility and utility in corporate settings. STAR Trusts are a form of trust that is unique...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Key Takeaways | Tax Credit Transfer Markets: Players, Platforms & Projections

On March 18, 2025, Philip Tingle joined a panel discussion during Infocast’s Solar + Wind Finance & Investment Summit titled “Tax Credit Transfer Markets: Players, Platforms & Projections” that covered market trends, pricing...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Unclaimed Property Laws and the Health Industry: Square Peg, Round Hole

Likely due to the tremendous number of healthcare mergers, acquisitions, and private equity deals that have been taking place, the industry has recently been the target of multistate unclaimed property audits. This increased...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Standard Formula: Encyclopaedia of Prudential Solvency – Chapter 2: The Bermuda Prudential Solvency Regime

This chapter discusses the Bermudian prudential solvency regime. Bermuda rose to prominence in the insurance and reinsurance industries in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely due to its pioneering work in the...more

Gerald Nowotny - Law Office of Gerald R....

Old Days – Memories of Equity Split Dollar in the Post-Loper Bright Era

This article focuses on the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. (2024) and how it might apply to Split Dollar life insurance and possibly resurrect one of my favorite life...more

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Eleventh Circuit Confirms Foreign Tax Credits Owned by Insurance Company Not “Plan Assets” of 401(k) Plan Under ERISA

In late October 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled in Romano v. Hancock Life Insurance Company, F.4th 729 (11th Cir. 2024) that certain foreign tax credits that were generated as a result...more

Gerald Nowotny - Law Office of Gerald R....

Still the One! – The Use of Private Placement Life Insurance in Tax Planning for Trial Attorneys with Contingency Fee Income

In the Soundtrack of Our Lives, one of the songs that I still get to hear from time to time on Sirius XM, is “Still the One” which was recorded and released by the band Orleans in 1976. I was in the tenth grade just to be...more

Gerald Nowotny - Law Office of Gerald R....

Las Mañanitas

Recently (January 15th) I celebrated my sixty fifth birthday. Where did the time go? If my East German father Willy Wolfgang Nowotny were still with us, I could hear him say, “Too soon old, too late smart.” While I was never...more

K&L Gates LLP

The Inside Basis: Tax Insurance in Luxembourg

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In our second episode of The Inside Basis, Randy Clark is joined by Marion Zeller, a tax partner in our Luxembourg office, and David Mussche, an associate director with Howden M&A's tax team, to discuss the state of tax...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Another Attack on Private Placement Life Insurance

The use of private placement life insurance (PPLI) by high-net-worth individuals has generated considerable controversy over the years, with proponents arguing that it is a proper use of existing laws that provide many of the...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Tax Liability Insurance: Overview & 2024 Market Update

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Nearly all carriers will list the above exclusions; however, some may also exclude Fraud and Settlement without Consent from coverage. As with RWI, Tax Liability Policies are non-renewable. They have a one-time premium...more

Flaster Greenberg PC

Why Should Your Art Collection Be Part of Your Estate And Tax Planning?

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Your carefully curated fine art collection is an important, and often emotionally charged part of your estate. If not specifically addressed in your will, or some other arrangement isn’t made, your important fine art falls...more

Carlton Fields

Tax Court Upholds IRS Decision That Premiums Paid to Microcaptive Insurance Companies Did Not Qualify for Tax Deductions

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The U.S. Tax Court recently upheld a determination by the IRS that premium payments to certain microcaptives could not be deducted for tax purposes because the premium payments were not actually for “insurance.”...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Vente d’une entreprise de distribution d’assurances : mettre toutes les chances de son côté

Le marché fragmenté de la distribution d’assurances au Canada continue de faire l’objet d’un grand volume d’activités de fusion et acquisition (« F&A ») alors que les consolidateurs établis regroupent de petits courtiers...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Getting the Deal Done: Insurance Distribution

The fragmented insurance distribution market in Canada continues to see significant levels of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity as established consolidators roll up smaller brokerages and managing general agents (MGAs),...more

Woodruff Sawyer

What Is Private Placement Life Insurance?

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Market volatility and heightened tax uncertainty have caused increased interest in private placement life insurance (PPLI) in recent years. However, those same factors have led to increased scrutiny for high-net-worth...more

Allen Barron, Inc.

Success is Built into Business Succession

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Isn’t it interesting that success is built into business succession. Still, most US companies do not have a business succession plan in place. What is business succession planning and how does it enhance your own success and...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

GILTI Conscience Podcast | Tax Insurance 101

Atlantic Global Risk director Mike Gaffney joined our “GILTI Conscience” podcast for an in-depth discussion with David Farhat, Nate Carden and Stefane Victor on tax insurance, including how the product works, how policies are...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Weekly IRS Roundup January 3 – January 6, 2023

Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of January 3, 2023 – January 6, 2023...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Weekly IRS Roundup December 19 – December 23, 2022

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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of December 19, 2022 – December 23, 2022...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Tax Liability Insurance Products: A Hidden Gem in the Transactional Lawyer’s Tool Box

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In this episode of “Don't Take No for an Answer,” Lynda A. Bennett talks with Justin Berutich and Yoav J. Shans about why more companies don’t take advantage of tax liability insurance, how tax products may be used as an...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Using Private Placement Life Insurance Policies as a Tax Minimization and Wealth Transfer Strategy

High net worth families constantly evaluate mechanisms for growing and transferring wealth in a tax-efficient manner. With increasing state and federal individual income tax rates, enacted and anticipated legislative tax...more

Gerald Nowotny - Law Office of Gerald R....

Papa Has a Brand New Bag

The high-net-worth PPLI marketplace has started to resemble the retail VUL marketplace but with institutional pricing and investment options that are more sophisticated. In my view this has occurred for two reasons. First,...more

Gerald Nowotny - Law Office of Gerald R....

All in the Family – Introducing Family Owned Life Insurance™ (aka FOLI™)

The All in the Family podcast introduces Family Owned Life Insurance™ or (FOLI™). FOLI™ is a specialty use of group private placement life insurance for Family Offices. FOLI™ is a powerful product that will allow Family...more

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