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New DOJ-DHS Trade Fraud Guide Raises Risks for Importers and Brokers

Signing Principle into Practice – Five Lessons from the Declaration at 250 (The Houston Lawyer)

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CBP’s 2026 Forced Labor Guidance Raises the Stakes for Retail Supply Chains (The Legal Intelligencer)

He provides general estate planning as well as more advanced gift and trust planning advice that includes counseling fund principals with gifting fund interests, creating grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs), intentionally defective grantor trusts (IDGTs), private trust companies, charitable trusts and the use of life insurance strategies and structures. George counsels clients with tax compliance issues that may arise, including representing them in front of the IRS and advising clients who might need to make disclosures to the IRS.

A significant part of George's practice is cross-border tax and wealth planning advice. He counsels non-U.S. individuals and U.S. citizens residing overseas, providing trust and succession planning advice for their American family members, creating foreign grantor trusts and administering foreign nongrantor trusts. He assists non-U.S. clients with structuring tax efficient investments in U.S. real estate, funds and other U.S. situs investments, in addition to tax planning for immigration to the United States. George advises U.S. citizens living abroad, or who invest overseas, on a range of issues, including tax, estate and expatriation planning, focusing on the relevant non-U.S. legal and tax issues that may affect them. He developed his skills in international tax planning by practicing law in Hong Kong for more than five years early in his legal career. George is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), the international professional body for advisers who concentrate in cross-border inheritance and succession planning.

George worked for the Florida Department of Revenue before entering private practice, administering taxpayer audit appeals, providing taxpayers with guidance concerning state tax laws and advising state legislators and executives on federal and state tax law and legislation. He also served as Legislative Counsel to U.S. Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D., of Texas, drafting U.S. federal income and estate tax legislation and advising the congressman on tax and economic policy, foreign affairs and transportation.

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LL.M. (Tax), New York University School of Law, 2009

J.D., Washington and Lee University, 2008

B.A., University of Florida, 2005

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BakerHostetler Continues Upward Momentum in Chambers 2026 High Net Worth Rankings

George McCormick Participates in Webinar on Pre-Immigration Tax and US Investment Planning

Analysis of Estate Planning and Individual Tax Changes Under the 2025 Tax Legislation

George McCormick Addresses Tax Planning for Foreign Investment in US Real Estate in Webinar

Tax Planning for International Families in an Age of Uncertainty (Tax Notes)

George McCormick Teaches On-Demand Course on Foreign Trusts

George McCormick Delivers CLE Program on Foreign Trusts for myLawCLE

Estate and Tax Planning for Globally Mobile Clients

Estate and Tax Planning for Globally Mobile Clients: Non-U.S. Persons Investing in U.S. Capital Markets

George McCormick Participates on Panel Regarding Taxation of the Arts, Sports and Entertainment

Estate and Tax Planning for Globally Mobile Clients: U.S. Tax Reporting for Americans That Live Overseas and Voluntary Disclosure

Estate and Tax Planning for Globally Mobile Clients: Purchasing U.S. Real Estate by Non-U.S. Persons

Estate and Tax Planning for Globally Mobile Clients: Estate and trust planning by non-Americans for American family members

Estate and Tax Planning for Globally Mobile Clients: Pre-immigration Planning for Moving to the United States

George McCormick Discusses Proposed Foreign Trust Regulations at STEP New York

D.C. Court of Appeals Strengthens IRS’ Ability to Collect Penalties for Not Reporting Foreign Company Ownership

BakerHostetler Expands in New York, Announces Addition of Top Private Wealth Partner George McCormick

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