Protect What You Build

The time to protect a project is before a claim arrives. Attorney and Certified Financial Planner™ practitioner Matthew Meredith joins Eugene Gershman to explain how real estate owners can reduce avoidable exposure before they buy, develop, lease, or refinance property.

The conversation covers revocable and irrevocable trusts, succession planning, trust-owned businesses, holding companies, LLC structures, corporate governance, personal guarantees, due-on-sale clauses, anonymous ownership, and the importance of separating operations from assets. Matthew also explains how these structures can grow with a portfolio and where lenders, taxes, and ongoing administration change the calculation.

Guest Bio

Matthew Meredith, Esq., CFP®, is the founder of Meridian Legal Advisors, a law firm focused on estate planning, tax strategy, and asset protection. He brings more than 20 years of financial-services experience to work that coordinates legal, tax, business, and financial planning for families, entrepreneurs, professionals, and real estate investors.

Episode Highlights and Chapters

00:00 Highlights

01:22 Land to Legacy intro

01:33 Matthew Meredith joins Land to Legacy

02:14 From wealth management to tax law

04:18 What owners should address before a project begins

05:58 Why protection must precede a claim

06:45 Revocable and irrevocable trusts

11:06 Trust-owned businesses and holding companies

13:50 Separating operations from real estate assets

16:45 Hub-and-spoke ownership for multiple properties

20:03 Scaling the structure without separate tax returns for every LLC

25:26 The limits of asset protection when a loan has a personal guarantee

28:02 Anonymous ownership and litigation deterrence

30:31 Domestic and offshore asset-protection trusts

37:52 How trust structures affect real estate financing

40:41 Due-on-sale clauses and structuring before a transfer

42:35 Subject-to transactions and lender risk

44:42 DSCR loans, rental income, and real estate opportunity

46:09 How to connect with Matthew

Contact Information

Matthew Meredith / Meridian Legal Advisors

Website: https://meridianlg.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewrmeredith

Eugene Gershman / GIS Companies

GIS Companies: https://giscompanies.co/

Eugene Gershman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenegershman/

Download the free Feasibility Study Checklist: https://giscompanies.co/development/feasibility-study/

Apply to be a guest on Land to Legacy: https://giscompanies.co/podcast/

This conversation is for general information and does not constitute legal, tax, investment, lending, or insurance advice.

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