BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE OF FOUNDING PARTNER

Barry Gardiner: born Brooklyn, New York; admitted to the bar in the states of New Jersey and New York. Education: Bucknell University, Business Administration and Accounting; Rutgers University Law School, Juris Doctor Degree; New York University School of Law, Masters of Law Degree, Specialty in Taxation. Experience: Tax and Estate Planning Partner at Rosen & Reade, a 20 attorney tax and estate planning law firm located in New York City; focus on estate planning, corporate t axation, mergers & acquisitions, international taxation and acted as tax counsel to many public companies. Extensive experience in all varieties of individual and corporate tax work, partnership taxation, advice to closely held companies owned by high net worth individuals with businesses having values between $1,000,000 - $100,000,000. Created The Barry Gardiner Law Firm in 1991 representing clients in all aspects of estate planning and estate administration including many unique specialties such as credit shelter trusts, disclaimer trusts, second to die trusts, QPRTs, charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, defective grantor trusts, private annuities, self-canceling installment notes, private family foundations, tax free exchanges of real estate, among many other sub-specialized areas of practice.