John Ivsan is a founding principal of Linhart Seuss Ivsan LLP. He practices in all fields of service offered by the firm, with particular emphasis on international asset protection planning, corporate law, and international trusts and LLCs. He advises high net worth individuals and multinational companies on personal and business planning matters. He also advises governments on trust and business entity legislation and regulation.

Mr. Ivsan is widely recognized as one of the foremost authorities in international asset protection planning, having served as managing director for two leading offshore trust companies serving the industry. He is the primary or contributing author of trust and business entity legislation in several leading asset protective jurisdictions, including Belize, the Cook Islands, and Nevis. In the United States, Mr. Ivsan has lent his expertise to trust and LLC legislation in Delaware, Ohio, North Carolina, and Wyoming. Helping to make LLC legislation responsive to the demands of commerce, Mr. Ivsan worked with the Wyoming state government in recent years to overturn an adverse state supreme court opinion and implement the world’s first inherent factor test for “piercing the veil” of limited liability for members of a Wyoming LLC.

Mr. Ivsan also has an extensive background in taxation law, having advised publicly-traded companies and privately-held concerns on issues of cross-border taxation and the taxation of financial instruments. His writings on insurance taxation law for financial instruments was adopted recently by the United States Tax Court and is now the prevailing U.S. tax principle on this emerging field of practice.

Over the course of his career in private practice, Mr. Ivsan has directed the hedge fund practice group at one of Atlanta’s largest law firms and helped  establish an international tax and asset protection boutique law practice in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mr. Ivsan founded one of the preeminent U.S. legal conferences on international wealth management planning, and he is a frequent speaker and writer on related legal topics. Helping to train a new generation of young lawyers, Mr. Ivsan advises attorneys of all skill levels on international business and wealth preservation planning.

Mr. Ivsan received his Juris Doctor with High Distinction and served as a law review editor. His thesis on international money laundering via electronic funds transfers was nationally recognized by Scribes. Mr. Ivsan obtained his LL.M in Taxation from New York University School of Law.

Mr. Ivsan speaks English, German, and French. He also communicates in Italian and Russian.