Southpac Announces 2008 Offshore Planning Institute in Las Vegas -- September 18-19, 2008

Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) May 15, 2008 -- Southpac Trust is pleased to announce the 2008 Southpac Offshore Planning Institute, to be held at the exclusive Wynn Las Vegas Hotel on Thursday and Friday, September 18 and 19, 2008.

The event will feature several of the nation's leading asset protection attorneys and members of the Southpac Board of Advisors covering such topics as domestic and foreign asset protection trusts, offshore banking, and innovative techniques designed to preserve wealth, such as offshore private placement life insurance, annuities, and equity financing.

Featured speakers at this year's event include the following:

-- Howard Rosen of Donlevy-Rosen & Rosen, P.A. (Coral Gables, FL), the acclaimed author of the BNA treatise on asset protection planning, speaking on the Fundamental Principles of Asset Protection Planning.

--John E. Dawson of Lionel, Sawyer & Collins (Las Vegas, NV), whose firm provides guidance to high net worth clients on sophisticated wealth management strategies, speaking on Nevada Asset Protection Trusts: Insight and Analysis.

-- Patricia Donlevy-Rosen of Donlevy-Rosen & Rosen, P.A. (Coral Gables, FL), a frequent author and speaker on asset protection topics, demonstrating the latest techniques for Asset Protection Planning for Immoveable Assets.

-- Edward D. Brown of Engel & Reiman pc (Denver, CO), an attorney with a nationally-recognized firm for integrated estate planning, presenting on ETRAP: Estate Tax Reducation - Asset Protection.

--James M. Duggan, Managing Partner of Handler, Thayer & Duggan, P.C. (Chicago, IL), providing an Introduction to Life Insurance and Annuities.

--Leslie A. Share of Packman Neuwahl & Rosenburg (Miami, FL), an accomplished international planning attorney, presenting on U.S. Tax Considerations & Planning Strategies.

--Arnold S. Goldstein, Ph.D. (Boston, MA and Boca Raton, FL), an attorney practicing in estate planning, taxation, and asset protection planning, moderating a panel discussion on Current Trends in Offshore Planning.

--David M. Henderson of Handler, Thayer & Duggan, P.C. (Chicago, IL), presenting on Ethics and Offshore Planning: Anti-Money Laundering Rules, the USA Patriot Act, and Related US Tax Issues.

--Scott B. Flaherty, an asset protection planning attorney with the Jeffrey M. Verdon Law Group, LLP (Irvine, CA), speaking on Life Insurance and Annuities: Advanced Planning Techniques.

--Neal B. Rubin , Managing Director of Rochdale Offshore Investment Management (New York, NY), discussing Offshore Financial Institutions.

--Southpac representatives from around the world will participate by satellite and internet uplinks to the conference facilities in Las Vegas.

CLE credit will be offered.

Southpac is the world's largest offshore asset protection trust company, with offices in the Cook Islands, Nevis, and New Zealand. Southpac helped author the first ever asset protection trust law, the International Trusts Act, 1989 of the Cook Islands, which has served as the template for similar legislation in over a dozen other countries and several U.S. states.

Southpac affiliates include Capital Security Bank, the only full service private bank operating exclusively from the Cook Islands, Southpac Life Insurance Limited, and International General Insurance (Cook Islands) Limited. Advisory services are provided separately through Southpac Group Switzerland, with offices in Zurich, Tortola, and Singapore.

This year's Southpac Institute is sponsored in part by Rochdale Offshore Investment Management. The Southpac Institute is hosted by Southpac Group Switzerland and MDI Insurance Services, LLC.

Attorneys, accountants, and wealth management planners are welcome to register for the event by contacting Southpac Group Switzerland at +41.44.586.11.32 or by visiting www.southpacinstitute.com. US participants may call MDI at (704) 837-0029 for more information or to register.

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