Grant & Kuyk, P.C.
Attorneys At Law
Charleston, South Carolina
Innovative Business, Tax and Estate Planning
At Grant & Kuyk, our depth of experience and knowledge in the areas of taxation, estate planning, business law and transactional matters enhances our ability to provide results-driven and practical counsel to clients in a timely and cost-effective manner. Our focus is on the representation of closely held companies, their owners and individuals seeking legal counsel for their business, tax and estate planning needs.
We have enjoyed long relationships with many of our clients by keeping their needs and goals as the touchstone of our relationship.
Whether acting as outside counsel to closely held businesses, representing clients in business sales or acquisitions, or implementing complex estate planning techniques, we strive to understand the needs and goals of our clients in order to implement innovative strategies to achieve them.
We stay on the cutting edge in our areas of practice and consistently seek to improve the delivery of legal services to our clients. Through the collective experience of our lawyers and our results-driven approach to the practice of law, we seek to guide our clients and deliver superior results.
Practice Areas
Business, Tax and Estate Planning, including:
- Corporate and business entity formation and governance, including limited liability company operating agreements, and partnership agreements, shareholder agreements and buy-sell agreements
- Business acquisitions, sales and mergers
- Family business succession planning
- Business and corporate finance and commercial transactions
- General business representation, including contract preparation and review
- Tax-exempt and charitable organizations
- Corporate, partnership and s-corporation tax planning
- Section 1031 like-kind exchanges
- Representation before the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Tax Court
- Evaluation and counsel in all areas of estate planning
- Preparation of wills, revocable trusts and advance directives such as powers of attorney, health care powers of attorney and living wills
- Preparation and implementation of sophisticated estate planning techniques including formation of family limited partnerships and limited liability companies, sales to defective grantor trusts, generation skipping transfer tax planning and life insurance trusts
- Probate and estate administration
Attorney Profiles
Michael Grant
Michael Grant has practiced law in Charleston for over 30 years, concentrating in the areas of taxation, business and estate planning, with special emphasis upon the representation of closely-held businesses and their owners. He has guided several Charleston businesses for more than 25 years and through multiple generations of family ownership.
Mr. Grant is involved with numerous professional, civic and charitable organizations, including having served as President of both the Charleston Tax Council and the Estate Planning Council of Charleston, Board Chair of the Charleston Orphan House (Carolina Youth Development Center), and a board member of Lowcountry Orphan Relief, the Hibernian Society of Charleston Foundation, and Charleston Leadership Foundation. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Grant served as a staff attorney for the South Carolina Supreme Court. He served for many years on the South Carolina Supreme Court’s Board of Commissioners on Grievance and Discipline. Mr. Grant is certified by the South Carolina Supreme Court as a specialist in taxation law. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of taxation law, having been named Lawyer of the Year in that specialty in 2011, and has been named a South Carolina Super Lawyer.
Education
B.A. Furman University; J.D. the University of South Carolina School of Law; LL.M. (in taxation) New York University School of Law. Representative clients: Banks Construction Company; Carolina One Real Estate; Detyens Shipyards; Life Cycle Engineering.
Jim Kuyk
Jim Kuyk has practiced law in Charleston for nearly 30 years, concentrating in the areas of corporate law, taxation, mergers and acquisitions, and emerging company issues, with special emphasis upon the representation of small and medium sized privately-held companies and their owners.
Mr. Kuyk is involved with numerous professional, civic and charitable organizations, including having served as President of the Charleston Tax Council. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of taxation law and trusts and estates. He is also an adjunct professor of Business Law at the College of Charleston.
Education
B.A. University of North Carolina; J.D. Wake Forest University School of Law; LL.M. (in taxation) Emory University School of Law; M.B.A. University of North Carolina.
Admissions
South Carolina, North Carolina
Carter Grant
Carter Grant concentrates his practice in areas of business law, taxation, and estate planning. He advises individuals, closely held businesses and their owners on a range of corporate, transactional, and planning matters.
He counsels business clients in matters ranging from entity formation, corporate governance, and general commercial contract issues to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financing transactions and reorganizations. Carter regularly advises individuals in basic will and trust preparation, probate administration, as well as complex estate planning and wealth preservation techniques. Carter grew up in Charleston and graduated from Davidson College and Wake Forest University School of Law. He lives in Mt. Pleasant with his wife and their three children.
Education
LL.M. (in taxation) New York University School of Law
J.D., Wake Forest University School of Law, cum laude, Order of the Coif, Wilson Scholar. B.A., Davidson College.
Admissions
South Carolina, North Carolina
