Barry S. Engel is a principal in the Denver, Colorado-based law firm of Engel & Reiman pc.  He is a President Emeritus, the Americas Branch Chair, and a Fellow of the Isle of Man-based Offshore Institute, a multidisciplinary professional body that has approximately 500 members in 50+ countries.  The Offshore Institute is dedicated to the promotion of specialist education and training in offshore and international finance and tax planning and to the promotion of the highest of professional standards among its members.  Mr. Engel is the lead author of the Asset Protection Planning Guide: A State-of-the-Art Approach to Integrated Estate Planning, published by CCH Incorporated, Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Engel is also a Senior Fellow of The Estate and Wealth Strategies Institute at Michigan State University and a Fellow of the National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys.  His other appointments include his being named the designated specialist for the professional section on asset protection planning for FindLaw (www.FindLaw.com).  He has been cited repeatedly by other professionals in their writings, and he has been cited as an authority by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Engel is also a member of the Editorial Board of London-based Trusts & Trustees.  Mr. Engel's other professional writings are extensive as well.  He was the Consulting Editor for Shore To Shore magazine for offshore professionals, as published by London-based Highbury House plc, as well as the Consulting Editor of the International Offshore and Financial Centres Handbook; the Consulting Editor of The Offshore Institute Membership Directory & Analysis for the 1996/97, 1997/98, 1998/99 and 1999/00 editions.  Mr. Engel wrote a regular column entitled “Shores” while he served on the Editorial Advisory Board of Conspectus Current, a professional publication for wealth planners. Mr. Engel received his law degree (with honors) from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1979, and his Bachelor of Science degree in business (with an accounting emphasis, magna cum laude) from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1976.  He is a member of the International Law Association, The International, American and Colorado Bar Associations, as well as several local bar associations.  He is admitted to practice before the Colorado State Courts, the U.S. District Court (Colorado), and the U.S. Tax Court. He is a member of the Asset Protection Committee of the American Bar Association's Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law. 

 

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