Anthony D. Martin

practices in the areas of corporate and international law, as well as estate planning. He has substantial experience in corporate law and international transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, financings, protection of intellectual and other property, employee compensation and equity plans, and contractual matters involving privately held, as well as publicly held companies. Mr. Martin has assisted clients in a broad range of international commercial activities, including joint ventures, distribution, agency and licensing agreements, advice on creditor protection and regulatory compliance, including the foreign corrupt practices act.

As an estate planner, Mr. Martin has more than 35 years of experience counseling family offices, individuals, married and divorced spouses, business owners and executives, and U.S. citizens and residents, as well as non-U.S. citizens, in the techniques of preserving and transferring wealth, protecting assets, providing for children, elderly and other family members, business succession planning, expatriation from the U.S., IRS reporting for foreign assets and accounts, and counseling clients generally in the integration of business and estate planning strategies. He has also assisted clients in the probating of estates and administering trusts, domestic and foreign, at times in the role of fiduciary or trust protector.

Mr. Martin has advised entrepreneurs and companies engaged in a broad range of commerce, including: computer hardware and software; e-commerce; biotechnology; scientific and medical research; pharmaceuticals and medical devices; manufacture, distribution and retailing of consumer and industrial products; electronics; cryogenics; publishing; fire retardation; life settlements; oil service technologies; personnel recruitment and placement; personal restraints; telecommunications; product design; real estate; commercial and management services; and mortgage servicing. He also counsels a significant number of clients in the healthcare industry, as well as nonprofit entities.

Experience

•Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2002-present
•Schnader Harrison Segal Lewis LLP, Boston, Massachusetts
- Partner, 2000-2002
•Goldstein & Manello, P.C., Boston, Massachusetts
- Stockholder and Director, 1984-2000
- Partner, 1980-1984
- Associate, 1976-1980
•University of California, Los Angeles
- Assistant Professor of International Relations, 1969-1972

Civic and Charitable Activities

•Pro bono counsel to Social Venture Partners - Boston
•Senior Partners for Justice
•Assisted Volunteer Lawyer Project client recover custody of her children

Honors and Awards

•AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Publications and Speaking Engagements

Selected Publications

•Author, Contested Guardianships of Minors: Leveling the Playing Field, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, June 5, 2017
•Author, Accountants' Restrictive Covenants: Making Them Enforceable in Massachusetts, Massachusetts Society of CPA's, 1999
•Author, Post Pettingell: Resolving Dilemma of Duties to Clients vs. Duties to Partners, 84 Mass. I., Rev. 36, 1999
•Co-Author, Considerations in Buying and Selling a Business in Massachusetts, National Business Institute, Inc. 1984

Selected Speaking Engagements

• Updating: US Estate Planning for Mr. Wang, Presentation in Shanghai (with Chinese language slides), October 19, 2017
• US Estate Planning for Mr. Wang, presentation in Shanghai (with Chinese language slides), September 23, 2016.
• U.S. Estate Planning for Americans in Switzerland, presentation to the American Citizens Abroad, Zurich, Switzerland, September 17, 2014
•Speaker, Planned Giving of Digital Works of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, April 10, 2014
• The Outlook in 2014 for Estate and Gift Taxes, presentation to the University of Chicago Business School Alumni of Boston, January 16, 2014
• U.S. Estate Planning for Americans in Switzerland, presentation to the American Citizens Abroad, Geneva, Switzerland, May 10, 2012
•Speaker, GRATs for Dummies, presented to Abrams Little-Gill Loberfeld, January 13, 2010
•Speaker, Three Cures for the Anemic Estate Plan, presentation to Alumni of Harvard Medical School, June 5, 2008
•Speaker, Planning Ideas for the New Business, Berkshire Estate Planning Council, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, October 30, 2007
•Organizer of Panel and Speaker on Managing the Costs of International Commercial Dispute Resolution at XVI Economic Forum, Krynica, Poland, September 8, 2006