Wayne D. Eig

Wayne D. Eig is a senior member of the firm's Tax, Business/Commercial Transactions, Estate Planning and Estate/Trust Administration practice groups. He practices primarily the areas of tax, partnership, corporate and succession/estate planning, with an emphasis on individual wealth preservation, creditor protection and sophisticated entity and transaction structuring. He has more than 30 years of experience advising individuals, closely held and family business and investment ventures in conjunction with sales, acquisitions, financing and investment activities, as well as structuring and restructuring matters.

Throughout his legal career, Mr. Eig has been qualified as an expert witness on a variety of complex business, estate and trust administration issues. He also has represented a number of Washington D.C. metropolitan and national/international real estate developers on development and transactional matters involving similar tax, succession and general planning issues.

Mr. Eig has frequently lectured to the Tax and Estates & Trusts Sections of the Maryland State Bar Association, and has made numerous presentations in the Maryland and the Montgomery-Prince George's Counties Continuing Legal Education Institutes. He also has lectured in the Maryland Advanced Business Planning Institute and has been published in the Estate Planning Journal. He has participated in the Graduate Tax Workshop of New York University and has been a member of the District of Columbia Estate Planning Counsel for more than 15 years.

In 1999, the native Washingtonian was chosen to serve as a member of the Board of Regents of Georgetown University. In 2004, Mr. Eig was recognized as one of the "Top Washington Lawyers" (Trusts & Estates) by the Washington Business Journal in a survey and competition which considered area attorneys in all fields of practice. Most recently (November 2007) Mr.Eig was named by the Washingtonian magazine as one of the area's outstanding attorneys in the estate planning field.

Mr. Eig received his B.A. with honors from Princeton University. He served and was honorably discharged from the United States Army Reserves before going on to earn his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He is admitted to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia.

Education

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1973
B.A., With Honors, Princeton University, 1968

Speeches & Presentations

Lecturer, Maryland Bar Association, Tax Section

Lecturer, Maryland Bar Association, Estates and Trusts Section

Lecturer, MICPEL Advanced Business Planning Institute

Lecturer, Montgomery-Prince George's Counties Continuing Legal Education Institute

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