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David L. Starbuck

David L. Starbuck maintains an active practice counseling individual and closely held business clients regarding taxation and business transaction planning matters. In serving his clientele, Mr. Starbuck drafts taxed advantaged trust structures and advises on sophisticated business succession techniques, including family limited partnerships, defective 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. Mr. Starbuck also represents a variety of financial institutions, advising them on trust adminstration, taxation and reformation matters.

A frequent presenter, Mr. Starbuck teaches each year at the University of Denver College of Law, Graduate Tax Program, in the areas of estate and gift taxation and estate planning. He has lectured both locally and nationally, most recently at the National AICPA Valuation Conference, in the areas of family limited partnership planning and generation skipping tax planning.

In the firm’s Denver office, Mr. Starbuck serves as the coordinator of the tax group and as the legal services partner for the combined business and tax groups.