Correira Law Inc. has received the Global Law Experts Award for its expertise and work in cross border estate planning and its representation of international clients. Awards are granted based on individual partner publications and lectures, case studies, client testimonials, responses from bar associations, and evaluations by other lawyers and law firms. This award places Correira Law Inc. among the elite large international, AmLaw 100 and top boutique law firms in specialized practice areas.

Managing Partner David J. Correira explained that “this recognition acknowledges the level of sophistication of some of our client work in the area of multi-jurisdictional estate planning practice. To be ranked among major U.S. firms which include Hunton & Williams LLP, Brown Rudnick LLP and Holland & Knight LLP is a badge of honor.”

The firm has consulted with colleagues overseas on international succession and tax matters and U.S. domicile, specifically for clients in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

In addition, Managing Partner David J. Correira, previously a partner at the international law firm of Holland & Knight LLP, has published articles in the Estate Planning Journal and in the former Journal of Asset Protection, and represented offshore trustees in U.S. tax disputes. Attorney Correira has completed advanced legal studies in jurisdictional issues and litigation at Harvard University Law School; and in international taxation, comparative law, and the European Union at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University and at the Center for International Legal Studies in Salzburg, Austria. He has been an adjunct law professor at the New England School of Law in Boston; and has taught international jurisdiction courses at law schools in Europe in the countries of Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia and Lithuania. In 2014, he has been invited to lecture in Russia at the Moscow School of Social & Economic Sciences School of Law on the topics of comparative property and trust law, international taxation, and jurisdictional disputes in conflicts of law.

Correira Law Inc. is a boutique trusts and estates law firm concentrating in fiduciary litigation, tax and business planning, estate planning and administration, elder law and disability planning, and probate.

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