Brian Steadman

Practice Areas

Estate & Tax Planning

Business Succession Planning

Trust & Estate Administration

Charitable and Foundation Planning and Operations

Asset Protection

Probate

Career

Brian Steadman is a member of the firm’s management committee and focuses his practice in the areas of tax planning, estate planning, business planning and asset protection. Brian has extensive experience in assisting clients with all areas of tax, estate, and charitable planning, including: wills, revocable living trusts, powers of attorney, special needs trusts, trust decanting, gift trusts for children and grandchildren, generation-skipping trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, grantor retained income trusts, private and supporting foundations, charitable remainder trusts and charitable lead trusts.

Brian has assisted clients in their business planning needs, including: advising clients with respect to limited liability companies, corporations, partnerships, mergers, acquisitions, buy-sell agreements and succession planning. In connection with assisting clients with their estate, gift and family business goals, he has assisted clients with respect to asset protection planning, including: the establishment and maintenance of Nevada Asset Protection Trusts (also known as Nevada Self-Settled Spendthrift Trusts), family limited partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations.

Additionally, Brian regularly represents beneficiaries and fiduciaries in contested matters and handles all aspects of probate and trust administration.

Professional Memberships

Clark County Bar Association

American Bar Association

State Bar of Nevada, Probate and Trust Section

State Bar of Nevada, Tax Section, Tax Specialization Committee

STEP (the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners)

Southern Nevada Estate Planning Council

Alliance of Merger & Aquisition Advisors (AM&AA)

Publications

Contributor, Succession Planning in Nevada: Passing the Baton, Nevada Business Magazine, April 1, 2024

Author, Five Things to Know about Trusts, Communique, January 2024

Co-author, Clarity from Klabacka: Nevada Supreme Court upholds spendthrift protection, WealthManagement.com, August 24, 2017

Co-author and Chapter Contributor, Inside the Minds: Family and Business Succession Planning, 2015 ed., Aspatore Books, a Thomson Reuters business, 2015

Small Business Succession Opportunities, Nevada Business, November 2014

Education