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Practice Areas
- Advanced Estate and Tax Planning
- Asset Protection Planning: Domestic and International
- International Estate and Tax Planning
- Expert Witness: Trusts (including offshore trusts), Wills
and Will Contests
- Planning with Life Insurance
- Family Business and Succession Planning
- Special Trusts for the Disabled and for Personal Injury
Settlements
Professional Experience
Alexander Bove is a widely known
and respected trust and estate attorney with over thirty years experience. In
1998 he was admitted to practice in England and Wales. Alexander has been
quoted in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Worth,
Forbes, Money, and Fortune as an authority on trusts and estate
planning and asset protection planning. For more than twenty years he authored the
widely acclaimed legal and financial column, “The Family Money”, for the Boston
Globe. He has published several books on subjects of estate planning,
asset protection planning, taxes, trusts and estates. An internationally known
lecturer in his fields of expertise, Mr. Bove has lectured at the annual
Heckerling Tax Institute, the annual meetings of the American College of Trust
& Estate Counsel (ACTEC), the Association of Advanced Life Underwriters
(AALU), The Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT), The Top of the Table, and The
International Academy of Estate and Trust Law.
Sample Matters
- Domestic and international asset
protection plans spanning several jurisdictions and involving a variety of
assets, including real estate, closely held business interests,
liquid investments, and insurance products.
- Development and implementation of
estate plans involving multiple family trusts, intra-family sales
agreements, and family-related entities.
- Consultation and analysis of existing
trust and estate documents, family entities, business and insurance
agreements.
- Establishment of family foundations
and other planned giving arrangements with the family estate plan.
- Consultation and representation
regarding succession of family businesses, and sales and acquisitions of
family businesses.
Expert Witness
- Engagement as an expert witness in matters relating to
trusts, domestic and international; analysis of international transactions
involving trusts and other entities.
Faculty Appointments
- Adjunct Professor of Law: Boston University School of Law,
Graduate Tax Program, 1985-2003
- Lecturer in Law: Northeastern University Law School,
1983-1984
Books and Texts
Articles and Presentations
Memberships
- Fellow: American College of Trust & Estate Counsel; Member, International Estate
Planning Committee
- Academician: The International Academy of Estate & Trust Law
- Chair: Asset Protection Committee of
the Real Property Probate and Trust Division of the American Bar
Association
- Law Society of England and Wales, London, England
Honors and Awards
- Voted Estate Planner of the Year, Boston Estate Planning Council, 1996
- Massachusetts Super Lawyer - Estate Planning, Boston Magazine, 2006
- Named one of 75 All-Time Outstanding Graduates, Suffolk University Law School, on its 75th
Anniversary, 1986
Education
- Boston University School of Law, Graduate Tax Program,
LL.M. in Taxation, 1972
- Suffolk University, J.D., 1967
- Northeastern University, B.B.A., 1963
- Northeastern University, A.E., 1961
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts, 1970
- United States Tax Court, 1971
- England and Wales, Solicitor, 1998
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