Redgrave & Rosenthal LLP

Ryland F. Mahathey rmahathey@redgraveandrosenthal.com

Ryland Mahathey concentrates his practice in the areas of Estate Planning, Asset Protection Planning, Business Succession Planning, Taxation, Tax-Exempt Organizations and Charitable Planning. Mr. Mahathey serves as the chairperson of the firm’s Business Succession practice.

Mr. Mahathey’s prior experience as a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Management Accountant adds invaluable perspective to his legal practice. He provides dedicated counsel to his clients on matters regarding sophisticated estate planning, asset protection and business succession planning, including Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts and structuring sales to grantor trusts; the purchase, sale or transfer of a business; business formation structures and reorganization plans; buy-sell agreements; and other exit strategy plans. In 2009, Mr. Mahathey was one of the first professionals to earn the designation as a Certified Exit Planner (CExP™) by the Business Enterprise Institute, Inc.

Mr. Mahathey speaks frequently at chamber of commerce events throughout the state of Florida and at industry conferences nationwide on topics relating to asset protection and exit planning for business owners.

In addition to his current professional associations, Mr. Mahathey served on the Federal Taxation Committee and Personal Financial Planning Committee for the Kentucky Society of Certified Public Accountants, Board of Directors of the Bluegrass Chapter of the Institute of Management Accountants, and the Charitable Organizations and Philanthropic Planning Committee of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the Florida Bar. He is a past member of the Boynton Beach-Lantana Rotary Club, a Paul Harris Fellow and served on the Board of Directors of the Rotary Club of Delray Beach, Sunrise Foundation. Mr. Mahathey received a Silver Medal for pro bono service from the Palm Beach County Legal Aid Society and is a Florida Bar Foundation Fellow.

Practice Areas

• Taxation, Estate Planning, Tax-Exempt Organizations and Charitable Planning, and Business Planning including Entity Formation and Succession Planning

Education

• University of Florida, Levin College of Law, L.L.M. in Taxation, 1996

• Washburn University School of Law, Juris Doctor, Magna Cum Laude, 1995

• Florida Atlantic University, M.B.A. in Finance, 1987

• Stetson University, B.B.A. in Accounting, 1981
  

Honors

• Florida Tax Review, Graduate Editor, 1996

Publications

• "Planning for Disability" Basic Estate Planning in Florida, 4th Edition, The Florida Bar

• "Asset Protection Considerations for Business Owners"
  Wealth Counsel Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 1, January 2009
  
  
• “Highlights from 2002 Tax Legislation and Section 529 Plans As Improved by the 2001 Tax Act,” Kentucky Bar Association Bench & Bar Magazine (Summer 2002)
  
  
• “Simpler Rules for Minimum Required Distributions from Qualified Retirement Plans and IRA's,” Dean, Dorton & Ford Newsletter (Spring 2001)
  
  
• “Offshore Asset Protection Trusts After The Small Business and Job Protection Act of 1996,” Fayette County Bar News (January/February 1997)
  
  
• “Family Limited Partnerships: A Valuable Estate Planning Tool if Planned and Operated Properly,” Fayette County Bar News (November/December 1997)

• “Tort Law: Can an Educator be Liable for a Student's Failure?: The Tort of Educational Malpractice” [Finstad v. Washburn University, 845 P.2d 685 (Kan. 1993)] Washburn Law Journal at 34 Washburn L.J. 147 (1994)
  

Professional Associations and Memberships

• South Palm Beach County Bar Association

• Palm Beach County Bar Association

• The Florida Bar

  • Member, Charitable Organizations & Philanthropic Planning Committee

  • Member, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section

• Kentucky Bar Association

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (Tax Section)