Planning for 2025 Sunset Panel

Aaron Flinn is a private wealth services attorney in Holland & Knight's Nashville office. Business owners and entrepreneurs, corporate officers and executives, and investors and families with inherited assets seek advice from Mr. Flinn for the purpose of ensuring financial stability and continued prosperity. Serving clients with trust and estate as well as wealth preservation needs, he helps craft and deliver strategies that reflect the client's values while capturing the tax benefits available under their given circumstances. He also works with assisting business owners in succession planning and other issues often encountered by closely held companies.

Mr. Flinn offers advice to clients on how to protect and retain wealth through strategic planning related to income, estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes. Tax-exempt and nonprofit organizations also rely on him for day-to-day guidance in relation to taxation and governance matters.

Mr. Flinn also assists trust officers and other fiduciaries in the administration trusts and decedents' estates, and works with ultra-high-net-worth families with regard to all facets of Private Family Trust Companies in Tennessee, including the migration of trusts and other administration issues.

Joshua Hedrick is a member in Kraft Analytics, LLC, an affiliate of KraftCPAs, PLLC that focuses on valuation, forensics, and transaction advisory services. For nearly two decades, Josh has advised business owners, executives, investors, and attorneys on issues related to valuation, cash flow management, compensation systems, financial strategy, and economic damages. Prior to joining Kraft in 2009, Josh worked in the valuation, forensics, and transaction advisory group of a large North Carolina-based accounting firm. He started his professional career as lender and licensed financial advisor with Wachovia Bank.

Josh's practice focuses on measuring, evaluating, and communicating economic value. His valuations - which include appraisals of business enterprises, complex equity interests, debt instruments, intellectual property, and other intangible assets - are relied upon for investment, lending, managerial planning, compliance, accounting, tax, marital dissolution, restructuring, and litigation purposes.

Litigation support and forensic services include financial expert witness services in transaction, shareholder, and business disputes, marital dissolutions, and white-collar criminal matters. His reports and testimony have been relied upon in settlement negotiations, mediations, arbitrations, and trials.

Buy and sell-side transaction advisory and due diligence services include transaction feasibility analysis, fairness opinions, valuation and deal structuring, quality of earnings reports, working capital analysis, purchase price allocations, and post transaction cash flow projections. Josh's clients cover a broad spectrum of investor types and industries - ranging from venture capital and angels investing in pre-revenue tech start-ups to synergistic buyers acquiring late round healthcare companies to cautious first-time buyers acquiring single location retail businesses to the partners of service companies establishing buy/sell agreements.

Josh is frequently featured at corporate and legal industry events as a guest speaker on topics related to valuation, exit planning, mergers and acquisitions, and economic damages.

Josh manages a team of credentialed and experienced professionals who support and enhance his practice.

As an advanced planning advisor, Jim joined Buckingham Strategic Wealth in 2006. Prior to that, he was vice president and portfolio manager for First Bank Wealth Management Group. He spent 18 years with Mobil Oil Corporation in its marketing division, representing Mobil globally from its offices in Africa, Australia and New York.

Jim is a Certified Financial Planner professional and holds the Certified Student Loan Professional designation. Jim also chairs the firm’s Advanced Planning Committee.

He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. He serves on the board of the Financial Executives Networking Group.

Mark Patterson, a member (owner) with KraftCPAs and co- practice leader of the KraftCPAs manufacturing, wholesale, distribution (MWD) industry team, has been working in public accounting since 1985. Prior to joining KraftCPAs, he worked with local and national public accounting firms. Mark's responsibilities include tax research and planning, reviewing income tax returns and supervising tax professionals. He provides tax compliance and planning for middle- market companies and their owners.

Mark has experience with the manufacturing, transportation and service industries including tax consulting and compliance for American subsidiaries of foreign owned companies. His expertise has helped numerous clients reduce their tax burden through the identification of various state and federal tax credits, deductions and other incentives, including but not limited to the Tennessee Jobs Tax Credit, the federal research and development (R&D) credit, IC-DISC for exporters, the domestic manufacturing deduction and cost segregation studies.