Diana SC Zeydel

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Tax, trust and estate laws are updated and amended with ever-increasing frequency. Ensuring that you have properly planned for yourself and your family's future is essential. Greenberg Traurig's Trusts & Estates Department is primarily responsible for assisting individual clients and families in attaining their wealth transfer and estate planning objectives. Our attorneys provide integrated income and transfer tax advice that takes into account current and projected changes in the tax and state laws affecting our clients' planning. GT provides a platform to bring our clients personalized strategies for their estate planning needs on a cost-effective basis; with trusts and estates attorneys in most of the firm's offices, we are able to counsel our clients in the locations that are the most convenient for them.

Trusts And Estates Counsel
* We counsel clients on virtually every aspect of estate planning – to help minimize worry and risk
* Our attorneys work with clients to evaluate their unique situations and help them achieve their wealth transfer goals
* We design all necessary documents and structures to maximize tax efficiency and minimize the risk of disputes
* Our attorneys handle virtually all aspects of estate and trust administration, including the representation of both fiduciaries and beneficiaries in contested probate and trust matters
* When a dispute becomes unavoidable, our experienced attorneys represent our clients in litigation, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution

Our Services
* Traditional estate planning, including preparation of revocable trusts, irrevocable trusts and wills
* Family business planning
* Life insurance planning
* Employee and retirement benefits
* International estate planning
* Wealth preservation
* Marital agreements
* Estate and trust administration
* Post-mortem planning
* Private foundations
* Publicly supported charities
* Contested probate and trust matters (representation of both fiduciaries and beneficiaries)
* Guardianship administration

Our Clients
* We assist high-net-worth individuals, including senior corporate executives and owners of privately held businesses
* The firm has represented a number of large institutions in disputes arising out of their fiduciary activities

Estate Planning And Administration
* We assist our clients in accomplishing tax-efficient wealth transfer consistent with their overall family goals and values
* Our advice takes into account the current and projected changes in the tax and state laws affecting our clients’ planning
* We counsel clients regarding:
- Business succession and wealth preservation across generations
- Succession planning with life insurance and employee and retirement benefits
- Gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax planning
- Charitable giving and the establishment and operation of private and publicly supported charitable organizations
- Administration of trusts and estates
* We represent clients in court in matters involving contested interests and in IRS administrative proceedings involving the determination or assessment of taxes, questions as to the taxable value of closely held businesses, real estate, artwork and other unique assets

International Estate Planning
* We offer services to non-citizens and non-resident alien individuals to assist them in structuring an estate and business succession plan that addresses the unique tax rules applicable to them
* Our attorneys provide wide-ranging services in the area of international estate planning, including domestic wills for non-citizens, foreign trusts, foreign business entities and pre-immigration planning

Fellow - American College of Trust & Estate Counsel

Diana SC Zeydel
Greenberg Traurig PA
1221 Brickell Ave
Miami FL 33131
Tel: 305 579-0500
Fax: 305 579-0717
E-mail: zeydeld@gtlaw.com

Experience
* Tax
* Trusts & Estates
* Wealth Management

Areas of Concentration
* Estate Planning
* Business Succession Planning
* International Estate and Pre-Immigration Planning
* Estate and Trust Administration and Contests
* Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Tax Controversies
* Pre- and Postnuptial Agreements

Diana S.C. Zeydel focuses her practice on estate planning for high net worth individuals and families. Her practice includes planning for U.S. and non-U.S. citizens and residents. She has represented business owners in achieving intra-generational wealth preservation and business succession planning. She has assisted clients in litigated probate and trust matters, and represented clients before the Internal Revenue Service in matters involving complex estate, gift and generation-skipping tax issues. Diana has particular experience in planning with life insurance and retirement assets. She represents corporate and individual fiduciaries in connection with the administration of estates and personal and charitable trusts. She also represents clients in connection with pre- and postnuptial agreements.

Diana is a frequent lecturer and author and has spoken on a variety of topics before the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the American Bar Association, the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel as well as various professional organizations.

Prior to attending college and law school, Diana was a professional ballet dancer. She received her training on a full scholarship at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York, and was awarded an apprenticeship with the Company. She instead accepted an offer to join the Chicago Ballet, where she was quickly given the opportunity to perform soloist and principal roles.