James A. Flaggert

Partner

Chair, Trusts & Estates Practice

T 206.757.8044 Seattle
My goal is to improve the lives and businesses of my clients by solving existing problems and preventing others before they occur.
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Jim Flaggert focuses on estate planning, administration of trusts and estates, business-succession planning, charitable planning, and estate and trust disputes. He creates charitable trusts and foundations and limited liability companies and partnerships, and assists in creating and funding insurance trusts and qualified personal residence trusts. Jim assists clients with generation-skipping transfer tax planning, and with grantor retained annuity trusts, intentionally defective grantor trusts, and dynasty trusts.

Jim also practices in the aircraft acquisition and finance area, and has represented purchasers, financing parties and airlines in connection with the purchase and delivery of more than 1,000 Boeing commercial aircraft. He has also assisted such clients in connection with various related tax matters. Jim regularly assists in the pre-delivery financing of commercial aircraft.

Practice Highlights

Tax and estate planning

Working with client families and their businesses to capture their plans and succession strategies in the most tax efficient manner.

Aircraft finance

Represented airlines, leasing companies and finance parties in connection with the purchase, finance and delivery of over 1,000 new Boeing aircraft.

Charitable/tax exempt planning

Assisting clients to realize their philanthropic goals (by creation of charitable remainder and charitable lead trusts, wholly charitable trusts, private foundations and donor advised funds) and advise and sit on the boards of public and private charities.