[May 11, 2015]

Thompson Hine Expands Personal & Succession Planning Practice

Thompson Hine LLP is pleased to announce that James Spallino, Jr. has joined the firm's Personal & Succession Planning practice as a partner in Cleveland. He joins from Squire Patton (News - Alert) Boggs.

Spallino stated, "My decision to join Thompson Hine was greatly influenced by the strength of its sophisticated PSP practice and the complementary practices that support it, both nationally and in Cleveland. I also appreciate the firm's dedication to providing outstanding value and service to its clients. Its innovative SmartPaTH^SM program underscores that commitment by ensuring that services are delivered efficiently and with sensitivity to clients' needs for predictability and transparency."

Spallino counsels high-net-worth individuals and families on estate planning, family business succession planning, gift tax planning, charitable giving, asset protection planning, and the creation and operation of private family foundations. He also advises public charities on tax and endowment fund issues, counsels fiduciaries on estate and trust administration matters, and represents clients in trust and estate litigation.

His experience includes multigenerational estate and gift tax planning for families; designing estate plans for families with assets held outside he United States and for non-U.S. citizens who have assets or family in the United States; creating and implementing succession plans for owners of closely held businesses; designing and implementing family limited partnerships and LLCs; drafting and implementing domestic asset protection plans; drafting and implementing irrevocable trusts, including generation-skipping trusts, defective grantor trusts, grantor-retained annuity trusts, qualified personal residence trusts and other lifetime gifting arrangements; advising clients on charitable giving including charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts and the creation and implementation of private family foundations; and advising charitable organizations.

"We are pleased to welcome Jim to Thompson Hine," said Robyn Minter Smyers, partner-in-charge of the Cleveland office. "His broad experience in personal wealth management, estate planning and business succession planning will greatly benefit our clients, both here and across the country."

About Thompson Hine LLP. Thompson Hine LLP, a full-service business law firm with approximately 400 lawyers in 7 offices, is ranked a Top 5 U.S. firm for Client Service Excellence, Value for the Dollar and Commitment to Help in an independent survey of more than 300 in-house counsel. For 3 straight years, Thompson Hine has ranked in all areas of Service Delivery Innovation and is one of only 5 firms in the BTI Brand Elite noted for "making changes to improve the client experience." The firm's commitment to innovation is embodied in Thompson Hine SmartPaTH^SM - a smarter way to work - predictable, efficient and aligned with client goals. Key components of SmartPaTH include Legal Project Management, Value-Based Pricing, Flexible Staffing and Process Efficiency. For more information, please visit www.ThompsonHine.com and www.ThompsonHine.com/about/SmartPaTH.

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