Stewart L. Kasner

Stewart Kasner is a private wealth services attorney in Holland & Knight's Miami office, where he co-leads the firm’s International Private Client Group, focusing primarily in the areas of international taxation, trusts and estates.

Mr. Kasner routinely advises ultra-high-net-worth foreign and domestic clients on U.S. federal income, gift and estate tax matters associated with their cross-border investments, including U.S. real estate investments and business activities, as well as pre-immigration tax planning. His practice also includes forming and overseeing complex international corporate and trust structures, and implementing international reorganizations.

Mr. Kasner has extensive experience in offshore trust instruments, international information reporting, Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act (FIRPTA), Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), voluntary disclosures and withholding tax matters. He also advises on divorce tax matters for cross-border couples, as well as the development and purchase of offshore private placement U.S. tax compliant life insurance and annuity contracts.

In addition, Mr. Kasner is board certified in tax law by The Florida Bar.

In the community, Mr. Kasner has served as an adjunct professor of federal income taxation and estate planning at St. Thomas University School of Law, Florida International University College of Law and the University of Miami. He also represents indigent clients in connection with their U.S. tax controversies through Put Something Back, a joint pro bono project of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida and the Miami-Dade County Bar Association in conjunction with Legal Services of Greater Miami.

Industry sources praise Mr. Kasner on his work:

He is an excellent tax attorney, extremely responsive and thoughtful.

­– Chambers High Net Worth 2022 guide