Practice Areas
- Alternate Dispute Resolution
- Closely-Held Business & Tax Planning
- Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions/Securities
- Estate & Wealth Planning/ Estate Administration
- Taxation
- Trust, Estate & Fiduciary Litigation
Education
- A.B., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1972, Morehead Scholar; Phi Beta Kappa
- J.D., Duke University, 1976
Bar & Court Admissions
- North Carolina, 1976
Other Areas of Law
- Business and Tax Planning
- Corporation and Closely Held Business
- Estate and Gift Taxation
- Business Succession Planning
Kenneth (Ken) S. Coe
Ken Coe advises high net worth individuals, corporations and closely held businesses on matters that typically arise from an active business/tax planning practice. His clients benefit from his practical knowledge of income and estate tax matters, contracts of all kinds, merger and acquisition transactions and other business combinations, joint venture arrangements, shareholder agreements, limited liability companies, partnership matters, real property and matters pertaining to valuation of assets and operating entities.
Representative Client Services
- Business succession planning
- Estate/gift tax planning and transfer tax planning for higher net worth individuals
- Advantageous structuring of business transactions taking into account various aspects of a business cycle
- Structuring of ownership and transfer of investment assets such as real estate
Of Note
Frequently serves as an arbitrator for commercial arbitration matters before the American Arbitration Association
Professional Affiliations
- American Bar Association: Tax, Probate and Real Property Sections
- North Carolina Bar Association: Tax, Estate and Fiduciary Sections
- Past Lecturer
- N.C. Tax Section
- N.C. Estate and Fiduciary Section