Ann M. Rieger

With more 30 years of experience in estate planning and business law, Ann is well aware that she is handling someone’s “baby”, whether that be a blood relative or an enterprise they have nursed from infancy.

While Ann’s clients are typically business owners, senior executives and professionals who appreciate her thoughtful and creative approach to their often complicated personal, tax and financial planning challenges, she works with clients in varying personal and financial situations. She has extensive experience in the preparation and implementation of various estate and succession planning techniques, including wills, revocable trusts, irrevocable life insurance, generation skipping transfer trusts, charitable trusts, family limited partnerships, marital property agreements and powers of attorney. These techniques are often used in combination to help clients achieve their goals of reducing administrative burdens, minimizing taxes, implementing structures to address unique family dynamics, incapacity planning, charitable giving, creditor protection and other benefits.

Ann uses her accounting background to assist closely-held business clients in tax planning, liability protection, ownership and management succession, and other matters. This includes organizational documents, buy-sell and transfer restriction agreements, negotiation and preparation of various other corporate agreements and counsel for ongoing business operations.

In assisting tax exempt organizations, Ann counsels clients across the full life cycle of an organization. These critical milestones include incorporation, obtaining recognition of tax exempt status from the IRS, the structuring of internal policies and procedures to preserve tax exempt status, consultation regarding government regulation, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, financing and compliance with open records and exemption materials at the local, state and federal levels.