For more than 30 years, Stevens Kasselman practiced exclusively in this area of the law. He is licensed to practice in New York, Massachusetts and Florida and is a founding member of the National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys (NEPA).

He received a B.S. degree from Pennsylvania State University; an MBA from NYU Graduate School of Business Administration; and a J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law where he later taught as an adjunct professor of law.

Mr. Kasselman lectured on Estate Planning and Asset Protection before the Florida and Indiana Bars; appeared on radio and television, including CNBC’s Money Talk; published articles in the National Law Journal; and participated on numerous attorney panels.

Pamela A. Fuller is a corporate and international tax attorney, with over two decades of experience.  She advises a wide range of clients–including private and public companies, joint ventures, private equity and hedge funds, C-Suite executives, private U.S and foreign individual clients, and government entities–on transactional, investment, and supply-chain strategies to achieve optimal tax and business results.

Pamela provides sophisticated tax planning services across most industry sectors, including financial services, real estate development, healthcare, pharmaceutical, construction & engineering, infrastructure, oil & energy, retail, and myriad software and emerging digital technologies and services, including those related to crypto currency, tokenization, innovative blockchain applications and solutions, and all aspects of U.S. and foreign tax planning for digitized transactions and assets.

Pamela is also a seasoned taxpayer advocate, with years of experience resolving complex U.S. federal, state, and foreign tax controversies.  She is skilled at defending taxpayers before the U.S. Internal Revenue Service at the exam, audit, and administrative appeals levels.  If going to court is advantageous, Pamela provides effective and skillful tax counsel.

Pamela is Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Tax Section’s Tax Policy Committee, and also Co-Chair of the  International Tax Committee of the ABA’s International Law Section, with global membership.  She  frequently speaks at law conferences, and publishes papers on international tax topics in peer-reviewed law journals.  She serves on several steering committees and boards, including TaxLaw 360’s International Tax Advisory Board; the New York State Bar’s “Global Law Week”; and the International Fiscal Association’s prospective New York Congress.  Pamela is a founding member of the New York City Bar’s “Taskforce on the Independence of Lawyers and Judges” and a Fellow of both the American Bar Foundation and the American College of Tax Counsel.  In 2019, Pamela was recognized as one of 100 Influential Women in International Tax Law.

Pamela began her legal career at the U.S. Tax Court, serving three consecutive 2-year terms as an Attorney Advisor to the U.S. Tax Court’s Chief Judge, handling large “tax shelter” cases and transfer pricing disputes, amongst other issues.  Pamela holds an LL.M. in Tax Law from New York University School of Law, where she served as Graduate Editor of  NYU’s international law review, and completed post-LL.M. studies in international business and comparative securities law; a J.D. from Seattle University; and a B.A. from the University of Washington.  Pamela is admitted to practice law in several U.S. state jurisdictions and multiple federal courts, including the U.S. Tax Court.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Pamela worked as a business news reporter and anchor for a highly regarded NBC News affiliate in Seattle, covering international and emerging tech businesses, and geo-political developments.  In this capacity, Pamela had the opportunity to conduct in-depth interviews with the founders and executives of some of the world’s most innovative and successful companies.

Craig S. Redler has held positions with Amicorp in its offices in Auckland New Zealand and Miami Florida, and Southpac Trust International, Inc. with offices in the Cook Islands and Tauranga New Zealand. His responsibilities included serving as Trustee for off-shore trusts settled by high net-worth clients along with structuring bank accounts throughout various countries in Europe and Asia.
Redler was an original shareholder of the Law Offices of Redler & Seigel, P.C., an estate planning, tax planning and trust administration law firm serving the St. Louis metropolitan area. Prior to forming this firm, he was a litigator with Goffstein, Raskas, Pomerantz, Kraus & Sherman, L.L.C. in St. Louis.

Redler has also served as a Legislative Assistant to the Honorable Richard A. Gephardt, Majority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives, and was Systems Engineer for EDS/GM in Detroit Michigan, in addition to being a talk-radio host.
He earned his B.S./B.A degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia and his J.D. degree from the Washington University School of Law.
Redler is admitted to practice in California, Missouri and Illinois. He also is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri; U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois; and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. He has earned the prestigious designation of Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP) from the Society of Trust and Estate Planners (STEP) where he serves on the Board of Directors for the Orange County California chapter.
Areas of Practice

• Foreign Asset Protection Planning
• Domestic Asset Protection Planning

Professional Activities

• Society of Trust and Estate Planners (STEP): Board Member for the Orange County California chapter
• Justine Peterson Housing Corporation
• Talk Show Host Paradise 105.4FM Radio Station, Tauranga
• Talk Show Host KSLG 1380 in Saint Louis, MO

A New York licensed attorney with three decades of legal and business experience in the U.S. and Asia, Robin recently joined the law firm as a partner and leads the Asia-Pacific practice.

While acting as an international business lawyer and global corporate general counsel, Robin is sought out by clients to conclude cross-border and domestic mergers, acquisitions and transactions, structure joint venture and other relationships, craft commercial contracts, and design investment and negotiation strategies.

Additional transactional support she provides is essential employment, intellectual property, corporate, and commercial guidance together with managing large projects. She also advises on compliance and government investigations, and anti-corruption / data protection protocols. Her clients hail from a variety of sectors and include small to multinational companies (private, public, family), government offices and individuals, many with operations or connections in China, Asia and around the globe.

Having lived and worked in Shanghai for over 20 years, Robin’s knowledge of Chinese laws, regulations and customs is invaluable and has allowed her to build strong and trusting long term client and business relationships. She was a trailblazer having worked since 2005 in Shanghai as a Senior Foreign Counsel for some of the largest prestigious Chinese and foreign law firms. She joined Duan & Duan, one of the oldest Chinese law firms, in 2015. For over two decades, Robin orchestrated legal teams, and oversaw and managed legal projects from a variety of sectors.

Focusing on maximizing return with minimizing risk, Robin provides sensible forward-thinking guidance with a deep appreciation for her clients’ cultural traditions and corporate philosophies, making her a trusted advisor. Robin is a passionate and proactive advocate for her clients, finding creative, practical solutions while maintaining business growth when navigating complex business challenges.

Robin began her education in business, graduating Cum Laude and earning a B.B.A. from the University of Miami in 1982. She obtained her J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law in 1985 and was admitted to practice law in the state of New York a year later. Robin began her career as a Corporate Litigation Attorney in New York City, handling complex litigation cases for almost 10 years before moving to Asia.

As a dynamic leader, Robin was recently appointed to the At-Large Council (2021-2024) of the American Bar Association, Section of International Law (Section). Since 2007, she served as a Section Deputy, Division Chair, and Committee Advisors, Co-chairs, and Vice-Chairs. Building Section China friendships, she strengthened relations in Shanghai with the Shanghai Bar Association and American Chamber of Commerce Chapter.

As a routine author, Robin has contributed to publications by the Section, Thomson Reuters, and other prominent magazines. She also presents on China laws and regulations, U.S.-Asia transactions, corporate governance and US law and diversity issues.

Bari Zahn has nearly 20 years of experience practicing at global law firms in New York. Bari has represented a broad array of multinational clients on U.S. and cross-border transactions. She has supervised legal teams worldwide and has extensive management experience as the Founder, former CEO and General Counsel of a non-profit organization.

Bari’s expertise is in the field of tax – both international and stateside. She advises international investors, entrepreneurs, global families, and high-net-worth individuals and their family offices with tax planning, structuring and also with respect to business succession and life planning; this work includes a robust LGBT private client practice.

She helps large corporations, mid-size businesses and private clients with real estate transactions, deftly navigating the complex and sophisticated national and cross-border tax regulations. Bari also has a thriving cryptocurrency specialty, working with clients in tax planning for cryptocurrency transactions, including asset tokenization and NFT offerings for art, music and many other collectibles.

Bari worked at a number of “Big Law” firms. From 2009 through 2014, while at the law firm of Kaye Scholer, Bari counseled privately and publicly held companies, real estate funds and family offices, joint ventures, hedge funds, private equity shops, venture capitalists and pension funds on a broad spectrum of U.S. and cross-border transactions, including stock and asset acquisitions, tax-free mergers, recapitalizations and similar corporate reorganizations.

Bari has also advised state and federal instrumentalities, as well as other non-U.S. multinationals, governmental entities and sovereign wealth funds on the acquisition and disposition of U.S. real properties via REITs, U.S. Real Property Holding Companies and other similar tax-efficient real estate structures.

While at her former firms, including her time spent at Shearman and Sterling, Bari’s practice focused on both tax transaction and tax controversy matters, including the representation of clients before the IRS and the New York Taxing Authorities.

Bari also represented CEOs, COOs and other C-Suite executives on general corporate, employment, tax and other business-related matters, often acting as outside general counsel to many such clients.

Bari earned her law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1995. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University in 1988 and completed a semester abroad at Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland.

 

Selected Publications

• “Non-qualified Deferred Compensation Arrangements,” Taxation of Executive Compensation and Retirement, February 2009
• “Canadian Companies—Act Now to Ensure Deferred Compensation Arrangements Comply with U.S. Tax Laws Under Section 409A,” Taxation of Executive Compensation and Retirement, vol. 19, no. 6, Federated Press, Toronto, September/October 2008
• “Corporate Governance: American Jobs Creation Act,” Lexpert, April 1, 2005
• “The Potential Effect of the American Jobs Creation Act,” co-authored with Christina Medland, Taxation of Executive Compensation and Retirement, Federated Press, Toronto, December/January 2005

 

Awards

• SmartCEO’s Brava Award, 2015, celebrating top female CEOs who have both entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for giving back to their community.
• Brooklyn Law School, 2014 LGBT Community Activism Award
• New York State Bar Association’s Empire State Counsel, Pro Bono Award
• New York City Council Proclamation: For Outstanding Community Service, as Founder of Living Beyond Belief HIV/AIDS Youth Education Non-profit
• Honored NY1 News New Yorker of the Week for AIDS awareness work among teens in the city, interviewed – June 24, 2005

Max Dilendorf is a legal advisor with over 15 years of experience serving U.S. and international clients in the areas of family office services, estate and asset protection planning, cross-border structuring, digital assets, and real estate investments.

Max serves as General Counsel to high-net-worth individuals, families, and closely held businesses across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

His practice is focused on helping clients preserve and grow wealth through tailored legal structures that integrate tax efficiency, risk mitigation, and long-term legacy planning.

Areas of Focus:

Family Office Services

Max provides comprehensive legal counsel to family offices and high-net-worth individuals on matters ranging from international tax structuring and cross-border wealth transfers to private banking, succession planning, and strategic investments.

He works closely with clients to structure U.S. and offshore entities, resolve cross-border disputes, and navigate complex multi-jurisdictional transactions.

Asset Protection for U.S. and Global Tech Founders

Max advises U.S. and non-U.S. tech founders, crypto entrepreneurs, and digital nomads on both onshore and offshore asset protection strategies.

His approach includes structuring Domestic Asset Protection Trusts (DAPTs), Family Limited Partnerships (FLPs), and offshore trusts in jurisdictions such as the Cook Islands and Cayman Islands.

Clients frequently retain Max to perform independent risk assessments and structural reviews of U.S. and offshore planning structures to ensure legal compliance, creditor resilience, and long-term viability.

Digital Assets & Crypto Legal Advisory

Since 2017, Max has been at the forefront of cryptocurrency and blockchain law. He advises clients on all aspects of digital asset planning, including regulatory compliance, custody, estate and asset protection strategies, and cybercrime recovery.

He has represented many victims of cyberattacks and successfully recovered digital assets through litigation, arbitration, and private negotiation.

Real Estate Structuring & Investment Advisory

Max represents domestic and international investors in all aspects of U.S. real estate transactions, with a particular emphasis on New York.

His practice focuses on acquisition structuring, tax optimization, trust and corporate planning to minimize estate and gift tax exposure, and integrating real estate holdings into broader asset protection strategies.

Whether structuring onshore and offshore trusts, forming Family Limited Partnerships (FLPs) for generational wealth transfer, or guiding clients through Swiss private banking strategies, Max is known for providing practical, business-minded legal solutions.