Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson PLLC

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson PLLC

www.lasher.com

Managing Principal: Mario A. Bianchi

Number of Principals: 24

Number of other Attorneys: 12

Single Office: Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson PLLC was founded over 50 years ago in Seattle, Washington, serving clients in the Pacific Northwest United States. The firm provides comprehensive legal services for businesses, their owners and families. Areas of practice include business and tax law, general civil litigation, creditors' rights and bankruptcy, employment law, estate planning, trusts, probate and related litigation, real estate law and divorce and family law.

One of a very few full-service commercial firms that offer a robust Family Law department, the firm is well-positioned to assist high net worth clients with four broad business practices areas including:

Business Litigation - Practice Chair, Sean Small ([email protected], or 206.654.5613), leads this group of litigators comprised of 8 principals, 3 associate attorneys, and 1 of counsel. These trial attorneys help clients successfully navigate complex civil disputes in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration proceedings. Experience includes litigating and resolving high stakes multi-million dollar lawsuits in the following areas:

• Contract Disputes
• Shareholder/Partner/Member Disputes (business divorce)
• Trust and Estate, Probate, and Will Contests
• Commercial Transactions
• Real Estate
• Construction
• Labor and Employment

Corporate & Business Law - Practice Chair, Konrad Miernowski ([email protected], or 206.332.7547), manages this practice of 10 principals and 3 attorneys on everything from business formation to sales and liquidation. Key areas of experience include:

• Business formation
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Employment law transactions and disputes
• Tax law
• Real estate transactions
• Sales and liquidations
• Trademark registration

In addition, our firm has developed a secure, efficient system to assist clients in complying with the new Corporate Transparency Act which requires most privately held companies to file information reports regarding ownership and control with the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), as well as important document changes for FinCEN compliance in your company’s organizational and other documents.

Estate Planning, Trusts & Probate - Practice Chair, Darin Jensen ([email protected], or 206.654.2485), leads a group of 8 principals and 4 attorneys through the most sophisticated estate and tax planning in Washington, including:

• High Net WorthTax Planning - Washington is currently the only state in the nation to have an estate tax, no gift tax, and no income tax. Further, there are several excise taxes that impact various asset transfers. Also, the Washington and federal estate tax exemption amounts are different. from the federal estate tax exemption. Our attorneys understand this complex tax framework and routinely design sophisticated estate/business plans to help our clients mitigate federal estate/gift taxes as well as Washington taxes. We also implement charitable giving as part of the overall succession plan for both charitable and tax mitigation reasons.
• Succession Planning for Companies - We integrate the succession of our clients’ privately held companies with their estate plans to provide a seamless transition of their prized businesses to their families, sometimes to their employees, or possibly a third party entirely.
• Probate/and Trust Administration. We help executors/trustees with the administration of estates. Many times we can continue valuable post-mortem tax planning that increases the amount of our clients’ estates flowing to their beneficiaries.

Family Law - Practice Chair, James Stensel ([email protected], or 206.838.2920), works with a team of 6 principals, 1 of counsel and 3 attorneys, offering over 150 years of combined experience in all aspects of Washington divorce and family restructuring to our clients.

Whether a client chooses to proceed with:

• traditional divorce litigation
• mediation, or
• collaborative divorce

these practitioners have many years of success representing clients through legal separations, committed intimate relationships, child custody and child custody litigation, child support and parenting plans, as well as prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. Typical clients are high net worth individuals from both the private and public sectors, and across a wide variety of industries including technology, professional sports, entertainment, finance, healthcare, academia and professional services. This practice group is dedicated to preserving clients' financial and personal well-being as they navigate the many options moving towards a new chapter in their lives. Like all of our practices, they also work closely across all of the other practice areas in the firm.

The attorneys at Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson strategically navigate complicated legal issues with personalized client services, carefully guiding the decisions of individuals and privately held companies.