The following are examples of representative engagements in which DFL Fiduciary Services and its principal have been involved:
- Serving on the discretionary committee of a Nevada private trust company for a US billionaire family.
- Serving as the directed trustee for a series of Delaware non-grantor trusts for a client family.
- Serving as an expert witness for a class of beneficiaries with a fiduciary claim against their trustee.
- Implementing the creation and funding of Delaware non-grantor directed trusts for a Latin American billionaire family.
- Implementing the creation of a Guernsey grantor trust to hold the worldwide assets, including closely-held operating businesses, of a Latin American client.
- Transmitting notice of the creation of an irrevocable trust for the benefit of settlor’s second spouse while concurrently excluding settlor’s children from such trust, in reliance on Delaware’s pre-mortem validation statute.
- Coordinating irrevocable non-grantor domestic trusts for U.S. children of a nonresident alien, to take advantage of a gifting opportunity without incurring U.S. gift taxes.
- Implementing a Delaware “silent” trust, with the appointment of a designated representative, for a group of beneficiaries.