Alan Kirios is of counsel in the firm's tax and estate planning department. Mr. Kirios's areas of practice include financial and tax planning for closely held corporations, individual income, estate and gift tax planning, general business matters, international financial planning and tax litigation. He regularly advises clients in connection with the acquisition and disposition of interests in business enterprises and disputes between minority and majority owners in closely held businesses. Mr. Kirios is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and California, and before the United States District Court, Central District of California and the United States Tax Court.

Recent transactions in which Mr. Kirios has advised clients include the sale of a local chain of approximately 35 coffee stores; the acquisition of a minority interest in a group of entities developing the largest assemblage of undeveloped land in the City of Los Angeles; the establishment of a group buying service for owners and operators of television broadcast stations; the organization of several technology and media "start-up" companies; the investment by a financial institution in several technology ventures; the monitoring of the administration of a $1 billion estate on behalf of a beneficiary; and the investment by a European broadcast conglomerate in a large Los Angeles based television production company. In addition, he regularly advises clients in the entertainment industry on a variety of tax matters, including major motion picture studios and a number of independent film and television production companies.

Mr. Kirios has also served as an instructor at the University of Southern California Law Center Advanced Professional Program, and has lectured at the Practicing Law Institute Annual Immigration and Naturalization Institute and the UCLA Entertainment Tax Institute.

Mr. Kirios attended Tufts University and received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. He subsequently attended Boston University School of Law, receiving a Juris Doctor degree in 1973, and New York University School of Law, receiving a Master of Laws in Taxation degree in 1977.

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