Moore & Bruce, LLP is a leading private client law firm. It is known for its work on private client matters, both for U.S. and international individuals and families.

These matters include advising closely-held family businesses, advising family structures (so-called "family offices"), estates, family partnerships, trusts, private trust companies, and private foundations.

We advise with respect to the purchase, holding and sale of large real estate parcels, securities portfolios and art collections. We advise families with respect to family issues, e.g., divorce and separation. We draft wills, living trusts, and a variety of will substitutes. We also handle probate matters.

Examples of matters are:

• Advise U.S. citizen living abroad since the late 1950s who had not filed U.S. taxes since the mid-1960s;

• Advise U.S. individual who inherited funds in an unreported European bank account;

• Advise U.S. individual living in a Latin American country who wanted to leave property there and in the U.S. to adopted children in the foreign country;

• Advise the manager of a Zurich-based fund on U.S. taxation of a large bonus;

• Advise a Bermuda trust company and U.S. beneficiaries on U.S. taxation of distributions from a foreign complex trust;

• Advise dual Iranian and U.S. members of a family as to U.S. taxation and the application of U.S. sanctions;

• Advise an individual as to how to "back file" Foreign Bank Account Reports;

• Advise the Special Trustee of a U.S. special needs trust where the beneficiary and her family lived in Ethiopia;

• Advise a "transatlantic" family on all aspects of moving from the U.S. to London.

We hold to the tradition of the trusted counselor who assists clients with respect to a wide range of issues.

Estate Planning; Executive Compensation; Families; Immigration and Nationality; Media and Art; Private Clients; Tax—Domestic U.S. and International.