Robert I Betts
Betts Austin is located in the Pacific Northwest and provides strategic business, estate and tax planning for wealthy families and closely-held businesses.
Betts Austin represents closely-held business and individuals with taxable states. Below is an in-depth list of our areas of concentration:
* U.S. and multinational:
- Estate planning, including wealth transfer strategies
- Business structure and succession planning
- Business acquisitions and sales
* Charitable giving and family charities
* Executive compensation, including non-qualified plans and stock rights
* Strategic planning with low-basis stock
* Federal, state and local taxation
* Deferred compensation, pension and profit sharing plans (qualified plans)
Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
Robert I Betts
Betts Austin PLLC
11120 NE 2nd St #200
Bellevue WA 98015-3050
Tel: 425 450-3300
E-mail: rbetts@nwtaxlaw.com
Mr. Betts is a member of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and one of the founding members of the law firm. He is a Washington native and has practiced in the Seattle region for over twenty-nine years.
Mr. Betts is a graduate of the University of Washington and the University of Washington School of Law. While in Law School, Mr. Betts served on the Washington Law Review and was named to the Order of the Coif as one of the top graduates in his class.
Mr. Betts has substantial experience in preparing wealth succession plans for high net worth families and has probated in excess of 300 estates. His practice focuses largely on planning and transactions on behalf of closely-held business owners and families with taxable estates. In the course of his practice, Mr. Betts has worked on numerous acquisitions and sales of businesses and large parcels of com- mercial property. Prior to founding Egger Betts Austin, pllc, Mr. Betts was a partner of the law firm of Williams, Kastner & Gibbs, where he headed the tax and business practice group. He is a frequent speaker to professional groups and community organizations on tax and estate planning topics.
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