Client Services with a Global Reach
Giordani Fitte Grossman & Ripp LLP
GFGR delivers highly-personalized legal and non-legal wealth preservation, tax, estate planning, and business-related services to the high net worth and closely held business communities in the United States and abroad. Distinguished by a superb team of legal, tax, and insurance professionals, GFGR offers a comprehensive array of strategies at the highest level of quality—reasonably priced and timely delivered.
Practice Areas
International Estate and Asset Protection Planning
Given the current economic, legal, and sociopolitical environment, GFGR believes that estate planning attorneys have a duty to advise all clients on the necessity of, and the techniques for achieving, asset protection.
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Private Placement Life Insurance Planning & Insurance Dedicated Funds
For the past 25 years, GFGR professionals have advised clients in the acquisition of very large international and domestic private placement life insurance policies.
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Domestic Estate Planning & Charitable Planning
The design and implementation of estate and wealth-transfer plans is an essential component of the firm’s practice.
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Emerging and Established Business Ventures
GFGR not only assists it clients in maintaining and protecting their wealth—GFGR helps them create it.
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Tax Compliance
GFGR employs senior accounting expertise in-house to provide its clients with a robust domestic and international tax compliance service.
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Investment Portfolio Planning
(Legal and Tax Matters)
GFGR approaches the representation of wealthy individuals from a “big picture” perspective, and we believe that includes becoming knowledgeable of and involved in the client’s overall financial picture.
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Probate, Trust and Estate Administration
The firm’s probate, trust, and estate administration practice encompasses all aspects of administration of decedents’ and fiduciary estates.
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U.S. and International Tax Planning
A common denominator and distinguishing feature of GFGR attorneys and other professionals is their deep and thorough understanding of U.S. and foreign tax and entity issues.
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Complex Real Estate Transactions and Lending
GFGR lawyers counsel clients in connection with real estate acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, development projects, tax-free exchanges, and all related lending transactions.
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Insurance Consultation and Administration; Captive Insurance Companies
GFGR’s insurance group is uniquely positioned to advise clients comprehensively about all of their insurance needs and whether such needs are best met with commercial coverage, through a captive insurance company, or a combination of the two.
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Complex Structure Administration
Because GFGR approaches client representations in a holistic manner, we understand that the careful administration of complex legal structures is the next logical step following planning and implementation.
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Family Office Support
GFGR also offers clients the opportunity to receive more structured support of a client’s family office when requested.
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Leslie C. Giordani
Partner
Leslie primarily represents high net worth individuals and family offices in a wide variety of legal matters. Her particular focus is domestic and international trust, investment, and life insurance structures.
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Michael H. Ripp, Jr.
Partner
Michael represents high net worth individuals and family offices in the design, implementation, and administration of domestic and international trust, investment, and life insurance structures.
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Cindy L. Grossman
Partner
Cindy has a breadth of experience in corporate and partnership formation and operation, entity conversion and reorganization, business planning, business succession, and asset protection planning.
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Lauren M. Fitte
Partner
Lauren focuses on the design, implementation and administration of domestic and international estate and business plans for GFGR’s clients.
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Robert W. Chesner, Jr.
Finance & Insurance
Bob assists high net worth individuals and family offices in the design and implementation of domestic and offshore life insurance and annuity structures.
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J. Ross Buchholtz
Tax & Accounting
Ross draws upon his extensive experience as a senior certified public accountant to advise clients on a variety of income and transfer tax matters.
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The professionals and staff of GFGR seek to provide the highest quality legal services within the strictest ethical boundaries of the legal profession in a work environment that honors, respects, and values our clients, each other, our colleagues, and the community. Please note: Sending us an inquiry through the website does not create an attorney-client relationship.