Stephen Salley, a Partner at BanyanGlobal, is a tax attorney and family
business consultant with more than 35 years of experience. He specializes in
helping clients understand how their estate and tax planning and trust
administration impact the ownership and management of their family
businesses.
He was a certified tax attorney for 25 years, most recently a Senior
Shareholder at the national law firm of Greenberg Traurig. He left the
practice of law in 2004 and with his colleague JoEllen Ross joined GenSpring
Family Offices, one of the nation’s largest multi-family offices. As that firm’s
Chief Fiduciary Officer and Co-Director of GenSpring’s Family Business
Center, he deepened his expertise in family business ownership issues.
STEPHEN G. SALLEY
Partner
Having grown up in a family business, Steve brings a passionate advocacy to
the opportunities and the difficulties facing business families. From his own
experience, he understands how family dynamics and the highly technical
financial, tax and estate structures of family enterprises mutually influence
each other.
Steve publishes regularly in legal journals, is a popular continuing education
speaker, and is a frequent contributor to the Leimberg Newsletter, a nationwide forum for thought leadership in taxation and fiduciary management.
His writing addresses the many issues that fall at the intersection of trust and
tax law and family business.
Steve received his BA at Harvard College and both his JD and Master of Law
in Taxation from the University of Florida. An avid outdoorsman, he has
climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, hiked the Appalachian Trail, and canoed
Northern Canada. He and his wife live in Orlando, Florida.