Christopher M. Reimer

Christopher M. Reimer

Practice Areas: Private client services, including tax planning, estate planning, business planning, international planning; tax controversy representation (Federal and State), private trust companies; and probate & trust administration

Email: creimer@lrw-law.com

Education and Licensure: Mr. Reimer received a B.S. in Accounting, magna cum laude, from the University of Wyoming in 2001, and then his J.D. with honors in 2004. He obtained a master of laws in taxation (LL.M.) from the University of Denver in 2006. Mr. Reimer has been admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court, and represents the Wyoming State Bar in front of the Stakeholder Liaison Division of the Internal Revenue Service.  He is licensed to practice law in Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming.

Community Service: Mr. Reimer is a Director of the Wyoming State Bar Foundation,  Director of the Teton County Library Foundation, acting Interim Chair of the Wyoming State Bar Taxation Committee,  Commissioner of the Wyoming Center for Legal Aid, and member of the First Interstate Bank Community Advisory Board.

Memberships and Professorships: Mr. Reimer is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), the leading worldwide professional body for practitioners in the fields of trusts, estates and related issues.  Mr. Reimer served as an Adjunct Professor of Law (Estate Planning) at the University of Wyoming College of Law for the spring semester of 2011.

Mr. Reimer’s past speaking engagements include:

  • 2012 5th Annual STEP Pacific Rim Conference in Santa Monica, California, May 2, 2012, “Ownership and Management of a Family Business: Succession Planning with Family Members Resident in Various Jurisdictions” -View Brochure
  • Chicago Lunch Presentation, April 17, 2012, “The Undiscovered Country: Wyoming’s Emergence as a Leading Trust Situs Jurisdiction”
  • New York State Bar Eighth Annual International Estate Planning Institute, New York, New York, Thursday, March 22, 2012 “Dodd-Frank and the International Trustee” -View Brochure
  • ABA International Private Client Committee member teleconference, February 27, 2012, “Ethics in International Estate Planning”
  • 48th Annual Hawaii Tax Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 8th, 2011, “The Impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on Private Trustees: A Guide for Practitioners and Their Clients to Avoid Investment Advisor Status” -View Brochure
  • 2011 19th STEP Jersey Annual International Conference in St. Helier, Jersey Channel Islands, November 4, 2011, “The Undiscovered Country: Wyoming’s Emergence as a Leading Trust Situs Jurisdiction” -View Brochure
  • 2011 Wyoming State Bar Convention in Cheyenne, Wyoming, September 16, 2011, “The Undiscovered Country: Opportunities for Wealth Preservation and Planning for Business Entities, Individuals and Trusts Having a Situs in the State of Wyoming” -View Brochure
  • 2011 4th Annual STEP Pacific Rim Conference in Santa Monica, California, May 13, 2011, “Asset Protection Practice in the United States: Current Best Practices, and Predictions for the Future” -View Brochure
  • 2011 4th Annual STEP Pacific Rim Conference in Santa Monica, California, May 12, 2011, “Domestication and Expatriation of a Trust: Change of Governing Law and Forum of Administrations” -View Brochure
  • 2010 Osborne Tax Luncheon in Salt Lake City, Utah, May 20, 2010, “Utah/Wyoming Asset Protection Trusts”
  • 2009 Wyoming State Bar Convention in Evanston, Wyoming, September 17, 2009, “Domestic Asset Protection Trusts and their Trustees: Wyoming vs. Utah”
  • 2009 Edward Jones Seminar on Estate Planning, Jackson, Wyoming, January 14, 2009
  • 2008 Wyoming State Bar Convention in Cheyenne, Wyoming, September 10, 2008, “Irrevocable Trusts”
  • 2006 Wyoming State Bar Summit & Judicial Council in Laramie, Wyoming, August 16, 2006, “High End Estate Planning – Recent Developments”

Mr. Reimer’s published articles include:

  • “Appropriate Naming Conventions for Wyoming Unregulated Private Trust Companies,” Wyoming Lawyer, April 2012 -View PDF
  • “International Trust Domestication: Migrating an Offshore Trust to a U.S. Jurisdiction,” Quinnipiac Probate Law Journal, Volume 25, Number 2, 2012 -View PDF
  • “Ethical Considerations in International Estate Planning,” BNA Tax Management Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal, September 2011 -View PDF
  • “Asset Protection, Then and Now: Tools to protect wealth from creditors,” Trusts & Estates, August 2011 -View PDF
  • “The Advantages of a Wyoming Private Trust Company for Managing Private Wealth,” Private Asset Management, June 2011 -View PDF
  • “The Undiscovered Country: Wyoming’s Emergence as a Leading Trust Situs Jurisdiction,” Wyoming Law Review, Volume 11, Number 1, 2011 -View PDF

    • ** “Special Report: Review of Reviews,” Trusts & Estates, February 2012 -View PDF

  • “Non-Commercial Aircraft Sales – Planning Strategies to Ensure FAA Compliance and Minimize Taxes,” Wyoming Law Review, Volume 10, Number 1, 2010 -View PDF
  • “Domestic Asset Protection Trusts: A Comparison of the Laws of Utah and Wyoming,” Utah Bar Journal, March/April 2010 -View PDF
  • “Qualified Settlement Funds and Section 468B”, Wyoming Lawyer, June 2009 -View PDF
  • “Internal Revenue Service Office of Practitioner Liaison: 2007 Annual Meeting,” Wyoming Lawyer, December 2007 -View PDF
  • “Communicating with the Internal Revenue Service Through the Office of Practitioner Liaison,” Wyoming Lawyer, April 2007 -View PDF