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Planejamento Tributário e Jurídico para a Diáspora Venezuelana em Transição
An analysis of the U.S. tax and legal inflection points facing Venezuelan-American families considering return, reinvestment, or a change in tax residency. It examines expatriation rules, worldwide income exposure, and trust structuring. It also explains why early, sequential planning preserves optionality before decisions become irreversible.
CABA Pro Bono Citizenship Clinic
Volunteered at the Cuban American Bar Association Pro Bono’s first Citizenship Paperwork Clinic. A team of attorneys and paralegals worked through immigration filings for children, many of whom had been abandoned or neglected, helping them move one step closer to U.S. citizenship. Three hours covered what would have taken CABA Pro Bono’s staff weeks, a reminder that cross-border family issues are not limited by income and often involve legal gaps that go unaddressed until someone steps in.
When Principals Ask AI Instead of Their Advisors
Moderated the closing panel at the Family Wealth Report Family Office FinTech Forum, on families using AI to pressure-test their advisors’ recommendations. The session weighed the real risks, confident-sounding outputs that are wrong and the potential waiver of attorney-client privilege when sensitive information is fed into these tools, against the value of AI for scenario modeling and stress-testing complex structures. The throughline: the tool is only as good as the judgment applied to it, which is what decades of cross-border practice provide.
AI in Private Client and Family Office Practice
Moderated a roundtable at the International Bar Association’s International Private Client Tax Conference in London on how artificial intelligence is affecting private client and family office practice. Drawing on a survey of practitioners circulated beforehand, the discussion examined how family offices are experimenting with AI internally, how it is beginning to assist with research and cross-border scenario analysis, and why judgment and confidentiality remain central. The exchange reflected a jagged frontier of adoption across jurisdictions and practices.
Private Wealth in Latin America, Spain and Portugal: Insights from Leading Practitioners
Presented the U.S. perspective alongside practitioners from Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Mexico, and Portugal. Topics included protecting and structuring private wealth, political and tax-related developments, and the trends shaping how private clients approach their planning.
Tax Considerations for Venezuelan Americans Mulling U.S. Exit
Quoted on expatriation planning for Venezuelan-American families weighing a change in U.S. tax residency as Venezuela’s political landscape shifts. The discussion covered the exit tax and the post-expatriation transfer regime, and why families often overlook the long-term exposure that can reach their U.S. heirs.
Investment Taxation in the U.S., Spain, Panama and Colombia
A comparative analysis of how investment income is taxed across the United States, Spain, Panama, and Colombia. The session focused on the practical implications for multinational investors and family offices structuring cross-border holdings.
Tópicos em Destaque para Clientes Privados Internacionais
A continuing-education briefing on current developments and emerging issues affecting international private clients. Topics spanned cross-border tax, compliance, and wealth planning matters most relevant to advisors serving multinational families.
Border Wealth Strategies for Immigration, Compliance and Exit Planning
Strategies for high-net-worth individuals managing wealth across borders alongside their immigration status. The session connected immigration compliance with tax-efficient entry and exit planning.
Pre-Immigration U.S. Tax Planning: What Advisors Need to Know
Tax considerations and planning strategies for foreign nationals relocating to the United States or acquiring U.S. residency. The talk emphasized the steps advisors should take before residency begins, when the most valuable planning is still available.
Planning for Multinational Families: The Basics and Beyond
A comprehensive overview of estate and tax planning for families whose assets, operations, and members span multiple countries. The session moved from foundational concepts to the more advanced issues that arise in genuinely multinational structures.
Breakthrough Miami Corporate Circle Breakfast
Eduardo Arista hosted a breakfast at his Miami office introducing business leaders to Breakthrough Miami, an eight-year tuition-free program for underrepresented youth in South Florida that provides summer institutes, year-round Saturday programming, college advising, transportation, and meals. All Breakthrough scholars graduate high school on time and enter college immediately, with over 90% enrolling in four-year institutions. The event featured Carlos X. Ramos, a Breakthrough alumnus and Amerant Bank executive, and combined the organization’s mission with a discussion on asset protection and succession planning strategies for business owners.
U.S. Tax & Legal Strategies for LATAM Family Offices
Tax and legal strategies for family offices of Latin American origin managing U.S. investments and operations. The discussion addressed structuring, compliance, and governance considerations specific to LATAM families building a U.S. presence.
Breakthrough Miami Entrepreneurship Challenge
Served as a judge for Breakthrough Miami’s Entrepreneurship Challenge, where rising ninth-grade Scholars pitched business ventures they developed over the summer. The Scholars presented purpose-driven plans built on courage, discipline, and a real entrepreneurial mindset. It was a privilege to support the next generation of leaders and changemakers.
Hot Topics for International Private Clients and Family Offices
A briefing for accountants on current developments affecting international private clients and family offices. Topics spanned cross-border tax exposure, reporting obligations, and planning opportunities.
Financial Literacy for Immigration Attorneys: What to Show for EB-5s, E’s and L’s
Practical financial and tax literacy for immigration attorneys handling EB-5, E-visa, and L-visa matters. The session focused on the financial documentation these cases require and how to read it.
International Wealth Transfer Planning
An overview of planning for the transfer of wealth across borders and generations. The session covered gift and estate exposure, reporting obligations, and the structures that support orderly transfers for multinational families.
Investigação Trident Trust: Implicações para Clientes e Consultores
What the DOJ and IRS John Doe summons targeting Trident Trust means for clients and the advisors who worked with them. It explains the unusually broad definition of a U.S. taxpayer and the parallel investigations across three states. It closes with the immediate steps to take, including the limits of accountant and trustee confidentiality.
No Immigration Representation Without [Awareness of] Taxation!
The critical intersection of immigration and taxation for attorneys serving high-net-worth clients. The session showed why immigration decisions carry tax consequences that must be addressed before, not after, a client acts.
Investindo nos EUA: Principais Tendências para o Patrimônio Latino-Americano
An examination of why Latin American high-net-worth families are increasingly drawn to U.S. markets. It traces the shift from real estate toward private equity and co-investment, the growing use of U.S. trusts for intergenerational transfers, and the new demands of the Corporate Transparency Act.
Cross-Border Wealth: Strategies for Latin American Families Investing in the U.S. and Vice Versa
Bidirectional wealth planning for Latin American families investing in the United States and for U.S. interests investing in the region. The panel addressed structuring, tax efficiency, and the practical coordination required across jurisdictions.
Generational and Regional Impact: Best Practices of ‘Family Offices’
Featured commentary on family office best practices and generational wealth transfer. The piece highlighted the expanding role of Latin American family offices in the U.S. market and the governance habits that help them endure.
Investment Visas, Parole & Chevron/Loper Bright Decision
A discussion of investment-based visas and parole in light of the Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision and the end of Chevron deference. The session considered what reduced agency deference means for day-to-day immigration practice.
Planejamento para Transferências Patrimoniais de Estrangeiros para Residentes Fiscais nos EUA
A Spanish-language webinar on transferring wealth from foreign family members to relatives who are U.S. tax residents. It covered the reporting obligations triggered on the U.S. side and the planning that reduces friction and tax exposure.
Navegando pelas Leis de Imigração e Tributação dos EUA Quando Há Patrimônio Significativo Envolvido
A session on the combined immigration and tax issues that arise when significant wealth accompanies a move to the United States. It emphasized coordinating both disciplines so that one set of decisions does not undermine the other.
Structuring and Basic Functioning of an American Trust: Alternatives for Foreign and U.S. Trusts
An explanation of how U.S. trusts are structured and how they operate, with a comparison of foreign and domestic alternatives. The session was tailored to Mexican accountants advising families with U.S. connections.
International Impacts of the Beneficial Ownership Rules
An interview on the Corporate Transparency Act’s beneficial ownership reporting requirements. It addressed what the rules mean for foreign investors and multinational family structures, and the open questions about which governments will gain access to the data.
Legal and Tax Considerations for Doing Business in the United States
A briefing for Spanish business owners on the legal and tax framework for operating in the United States. It covered entity choice, tax exposure, and the practical steps to establishing a compliant U.S. presence.
Uma Perspectiva dos Family Offices Latino-Americanos
A panel offering a view into how Latin American family offices invest and operate. The conversation touched on allocation trends, governance, and the growing gravitational pull of Miami as a hub.
Tópicos em Destaque para Clientes Privados Internacionais
A tax-update briefing on the issues most relevant to international private clients. Topics included cross-border compliance, reporting, and the planning developments of the prior year.
LP canadienses, fideicomisos mexicanos y trusts americanos como vehículos para planeación patrimonial en EE.UU.
A Spanish-language session comparing Canadian limited partnerships, Mexican fideicomisos, and U.S. trusts as vehicles for wealth planning tied to the United States. It weighed the tax and structuring trade-offs of each option for Mexican families.
Consideraciones fiscales sobre inversiones en EE.UU. para familias latinoamericanas
A Spanish-language seminar on the U.S. tax considerations that arise when Latin American families invest in the United States. It addressed structuring, withholding, and reporting from the investor’s perspective.
Veículo de Escolha: Trusts Americanos para Clientes Privados Internacionais
A comparative analysis, published in the STEP Journal, of how each Latin American country treats U.S. trusts. It explains why U.S. trusts remain the planning vehicle of choice for many families and what it takes to make them work from both the U.S. and home-country perspectives. It also surveys the home-country tax and legal questions that determine whether a structure succeeds.
Tendencias del Patrimonio Privado
A Spanish-language roundtable, moderated by Ed, on trends in private wealth across the Ibero-American region. It brought practitioners together to compare the developments shaping private clients in their jurisdictions.
How to Open a Company in Cayman Islands or Delaware? The Advantages and Disadvantages
Cited for analysis of the trade-offs between Cayman Islands and Delaware entity formation. The piece weighed tax treatment, privacy, and practical considerations for international clients choosing a jurisdiction.
Legal Issues for Accountants
A session for accountants on the legal issues that surface in their work with clients. It focused on the boundary between accounting and legal advice, and on where attorney involvement protects both the client and the practitioner.
Como Funcionam os Trusts Americanos na América Latina?
A webinar, moderated by Ed, on how U.S. trusts are treated once a settlor or beneficiary sits in Latin America. The discussion compared country-by-country approaches and the practical challenges of recognition and enforcement.
Socios de CEIGE comparten un encuentro internacional con el partner de HispaColex en EEUU, Eduardo Arista
Coverage of Ed’s visit to Granada, Spain for the HispaColex partnership event. The encounter brought together Spanish business owners and attorneys for a discussion on doing business in the United States.
Haciendo Negocios en Estados Unidos
A Spanish-language presentation in Granada on doing business in the United States. It walked Spanish entrepreneurs through entity choice, tax exposure, and the practical steps to establish a U.S. operation.
Innovative Immigration Options for Foreign Investors, Social Media Influencers, and Other Modern-Day Careers
A look at immigration pathways suited to foreign investors and to newer categories of applicants, including social media professionals. The session matched visa options to non-traditional careers and income profiles.
International Tax and Estate Planning & Resolving International Tax Noncompliance
A two-part briefing on international tax and estate planning and on resolving prior noncompliance. It covered both proactive structuring and the amnesty routes available to clients who need to come into compliance.
¿Cuáles fiscos de América Latina reciben automáticamente información de USA y cómo funciona?
Un análisis del intercambio automático de información bajo FATCA con los países de América Latina. Explica qué fiscos reciben información del IRS, qué cuentas están sujetas a reporte y qué significa todo esto para las familias con inversiones en Estados Unidos.
Inicie su Planeación Tributaria ante los cambios que vienen con la reforma
A Spanish-language program on starting tax planning ahead of the changes brought by reform. It covered the steps worth taking before the new rules take effect.
IRS anuncia amnistía fiscal internacional nueva hasta el 30 de septiembre de 2022
Un resumen de la nueva amnistía del IRS para regularizar los formularios 3520 y 3520-A y las LLC unipersonales antes del 30 de septiembre de 2022. Explica quién califica, qué multas se evitan y por qué conviene actuar antes de ser detectado.
Representing the Latin American Private Client
A presentation on the distinct considerations involved in representing Latin American private clients. It addressed the cultural, tax, and legal dimensions that shape effective cross-border counsel.
Asset Protection and Estate Planning Essentials
An overview of the fundamentals of asset protection and estate planning for advisors and their clients. It covered the core structures used to shield assets and to provide for an orderly transfer of wealth.
Inbound Planning for Wealthy Multinational Families
An introduction to inbound planning for wealthy families establishing ties to the United States. It addressed the tax exposure that attaches on the way in and the planning best done before residency or investment begins.