Greg Hendrickson’s practice focuses on family business planning, land conservation, nonprofit organizations, charitable giving, and estate-planning.  Mr. Hendrickson is admitted to practice law in both Hawaii and California.

Education and Prior Experience
Mr. Hendrickson graduated from Brigham Young University in 1994.  He earned his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco in 1997. While at Hastings , he completed Hastings’ Tax Concentration

and received the 1997 Arthur Anderson Prize in Taxation.  Prior to opening his own law offices, he was Special Council  with the law firm of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy and Bass, served as the administrator for 24,000 acres of ranch, forest, and coastal property in Hawaii, and was projects manager for the Pacific Forest Trust.  In these positions he was responsible for conserving well over 150,000 acres of Californian and Hawaiian ranch, forest and cultivated landscapes and participated in developing environmentally-based commodities transactions.

Land Conservation Practice

Advising both land owners and land trusts on conservation approaches for real property, Mr. Hendrickson negotiates transactions, analyzes income, gift, and estate tax consequences of complex transactions, and consults with governmental and private citizen stakeholders on achieving ecological goals and environmental values through limited development projects.  He is particularly experienced in negotiating conservation easements for managed landscapes, including forests and rangelands.  Mr. Hendrickson has participated in the preparation of transactional contracts for environmentally-based commodities, advised on legislative proposals for reforming national natural resource tax policy, evaluated estate dispositions and trust provisions, and developed and implemented litigation strategy defending transferred conservation assets.

Additional Practice Areas and Experience

Mr. Hendrickson also guides clients through the complexity of wealth transfer, assisting them in crafting both lifetime and testamentary giving strategies., and encouraging them to consider both the tax and non-tax aspects of their giving.  He is experienced in drafting revocable living trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, and charitable remainder trusts.  He is a member of the Taxation Section of the California and Hawaii Bar Associations.  Author of articles on conservation easements for The Back Forty and The Charitable Gift Planning News, Mr. Hendrickson also has organized and conducted seminars in Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest, advising landowners on the tax consequences of conservation land transactions.  He makes frequent presentations for national organizations on conservation transactions.

E-mail: Greg@ghendricksonlaw.com

Phone: 808-217-7773

Greg@ghendricksonlaw.com