Founders Moving to the United States: Pre-Immigration Tax Planning for AI and Software Companies
A founder who owns part of a technology company abroad and moves to the United States brings that company into the U.S. tax system…
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Dilendorf Law Firm is a New York law firm serving founders, international families, family offices, businesses, and individuals. Our practice focuses on asset protection, cross-border tax planning, digital assets, arbitration, and cybercrime recovery.
Founder Max Dilendorf has advised clients on cryptocurrency and digital asset matters since 2017, including cybercrime, fraud, asset recovery, and related disputes.
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Modern Wealth Faces Modern Risks.
Assets move across borders, exist on digital platforms, and face increasingly complex regulatory requirements, cyber threats, and cross-border challenges. The rise of AI-driven attacks adds a new layer of risk that traditional structures were never designed to address.
We built our practice to help clients protect wealth, structure it intelligently, and respond effectively when problems arise.
Practices
Protect. Structure. Recover.
Five Practices. One Point of Accountability.
Modern wealth challenges rarely fit neatly into a single category. Whether the issue involves a cyber incident, an arbitration, digital assets, cross-border structures, or asset protection, we coordinate the legal strategy, manage complexity, and help clients move forward with confidence, from planning through resolution.
Who We Serve
Our Clients
We represent high-net-worth individuals, families, founders, investors, family offices, and businesses facing complex wealth, risk, and cross-border challenges.
Many come to us when a matter no longer fits neatly within a single area of practice and requires coordinated thinking across multiple areas of expertise.
Discreet, practical counsel where wealth is at risk and judgment matters more than precedent.
The Model
One attorney. A network of specialists.
You retain one attorney and one point of contact. Behind him is a network of investigators, forensic specialists, tax counsel, trust professionals, and other subject-matter experts assembled around your specific matter.
Strategic Advisors
Professionals with backgrounds in federal cybercrime investigation, engaged on recovery matters where that experience is relevant.
Institutional Specialists
Trust professionals, offshore service providers, tax counsel, compliance advisors, and other subject-matter experts matched to the matter.
One Point of Contact
You do not manage multiple advisors. We coordinate the strategy, oversee execution, and serve as your primary point of contact throughout the engagement.
Protected by Privilege
Sensitive matters benefit from legal oversight. Communications, investigations, and strategy remain coordinated through counsel when appropriate.Our Team
Senior counsel with global, cross-border experience.
Max Dilendorf, Esq.
Founder
New York attorney focused on digital assets, cybercrime, and cross-border wealth. For more than 15 years, he has advised entrepreneurs, investors, and global families on cross-border planning, asset protection, and the recovery of assets lost to cybercrime. Active in the crypto industry since 2017.
Read more →Bari Zahn, Esq.
Tax
Of Counsel to Dilendorf Law Firm PLLC. Nearly three decades of experience representing multinational businesses, family offices, and private clients in international tax planning, cross-border transactions, and complex U.S. tax matters.
Read more →Craig S. Redler, Esq.
Trusts and Estates
Of Counsel to Dilendorf Law Firm PLLC. Former trustee for offshore trusts settled by high-net-worth clients across the Cook Islands and New Zealand — the jurisdictions most U.S. asset-protection planning ultimately relies on.
Read more →Pamela A. Fuller, Esq.
International Tax
Two decades advising companies, funds and executives on corporate and international tax.
Read more →By the Numbers
When Wealth Is at Risk, Experience Matters.
2017Digital-asset practice since 2017
130+Cybercrime arbitrations as counsel of record
GlobalInternational clients, assets & structures
5 PracticesProtecting, structuring & defending wealth
Insights & Analysis
From the blog.
Perspectives on digital assets, private wealth, and asset protection.
Launching an AI or Software Business in the U.S.
Dilendorf Law Firm advises technology companies from abroad that are entering the American market. Software raises tax questions that physical products do not. The…
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Setting Up a Trust in the United States: A Guide for Non-U.S. Families
Many families outside the United States now look to an American trust to protect what they have built. The idea is sound. The details…
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Complex legal matters,
on camera.
Short answers to the questions clients ask first. Every one is transcribed in full, so it can be read as well as watched.
Cybercrime Attorney: What to Do After You’re Hacked or Crypto Is Stolen
If your accounts were hacked and your money is gone — especially if that money was…
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AI Cyberattacks Months, Not Years
“The timeline is not years, it is months.” That was the warning issued by the NSA…
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Wire Fraud? What To Do In The First 24 to 72 Hours
If a fraudulent wire transfer was sent, time is critical. The first 24 to 72 hours…
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