Ceci Hassan is Member (partner) of Hassan International Law PLLC, in Miami, Florida, and after 9 years with Baker McKenzie LLP, she founded Hassan International Law PLLC, continuing to specialize in international private client taxation and planning. She advises and represents private clients, families, family offices, trusts companies and businesses internationally on their global structuring, tax and reporting, with a particular focus on clients and individuals in Latin America and Europe. Her practice focuses on advising on the structuring of investments inside and outside of the United States, such as international trust planning, global exchange of information and reporting (e.g. FATCA and CRS), real estate tax planning (FIRPTA) and company planning, including passive foreign investment companies,
controlled foreign corporations and the new tax rules relating to GILTI. She frequently advises clients on their pre-immigration to the United States, with estate planning and income tax planning, cross-border planning where there taxation across jurisdictions, and the use of trust and other entities to hold their global wealth, including the establishment of private fund structures for US investments or US investors, and the use of insurance and private placement life insurance as an estate planning tool.
She is the former Chair of STEP Miami (the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), retired 31 December 2021. She is fluent in English and Spanish. She earned her law degree from Loyola University of Chicago, School of Law, and her LL.M. in taxation from the University of Florida.