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Derek Fletcher is a shareholder in Winstead's Wealth Preservation Practice Group. Derek's practice involves estate planning for high net worth individuals, with particular emphasis on the organization, administration and succession of closely held business interests such as limited partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations.

Derek is a Certified Public Accountant and frequently speaks before professional and lay groups on sophisticated estate planning topics.

Representative Experience

• Represents and counsels owners of closely held businesses on a variety of issues, including estate planning and business succession
• Assists in estate planning for high net worth individuals, including the implementation of sophisticated estate planning techniques such as grantor retained annuity trusts, charitable trusts, private annuities, qualified personal residence trusts, and installment sales of limited partnership interests to grantor trusts
• Counsels high net worth individuals on the organization and administration of family limited partnerships and limited liability companies
• Assists in stock option planning involving both incentive stock options and nonqualified stock options