David Starbuck counsels individual and closely held business clients regarding private wealth planning. In serving his clientele, David drafts taxed advantaged trust structures and advises on sophisticated business succession techniques, including family limited partnerships, sales to grantor trusts, intra-family asset sales and buy/sell agreements. He assists his clients regarding choice of entity planning; real estate transactions; charitable giving; incentive trust analysis; life insurance planning; corporate, partnership and limited liability company restructures; and fiduciary matters. David also represents financial institutions, advising them on trust adminstration, taxation and reformation matters.
David maintains an active lecturing schedule, including teaching each year at the University of Denver College of Law, Graduate Tax Program, in the areas of estate and gift taxation, family limited partnership and estate planning. David has also lectured both locally and nationally in the areas of family limited partnership planning, generation skipping tax planning and estate and business succession planning.
David has been named in the Best Lawyers in America and is a member of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). In addition, he is a member of the American Bar Association (Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section), the Colorado Bar Association (Trusts and Estates Section) and the Rocky Mountain Estate Planning Council. David served as the tax department coordinator for the firm’s Denver office from 2000 to 2010.
4/3/2012 - Starbuck and Benda Present “A Practical Guide to Substantiating Values on Estate Tax Returns” at Trust & Estate Section CLE Luncheon Series
11/1/2011 - “Best Lawyers in America” Recognizes 111 Baker Hostetler Attorneys
8/25/2010 - "Best Lawyers in America" Recognizes 100 Baker Hostetler Attorneys