Mark Ghatan

Attorney advising founders, families, and business owners on estate planning, asset protection, privacy, and legal strategy, with a background in investigations, entrepreneurship, and high-risk industries.

Estate Planning FinTech & Crypto

Professional Profile

Mark Ghatan brings a unique perspective to his legal practice, shaped by a lifelong entrepreneurial spirit and a strong background advising high-risk businesses and their founders. He began his career gaining experience in his family’s business before moving into risk-focused legal work after law school.

Early in his legal career, Mark helped clients manage complex risks by conducting thousands of fraud, cybersecurity, and diligence investigations for major institutions. After co-founding an educational media startup, he continued building on that innovative and problem-solving mindset by advising startups and established businesses on corporate formation, contracts, intellectual property, employment law, and compliance.

His experience includes work in high-risk and fast-evolving industries such as blockchain, cannabis, and international trade financing. Today, Mark’s practice is increasingly centered on estate planning and asset protection, with an emphasis on privacy and personal security for founders and their families.

Signature Focus

Estate Planning Beyond Basic Transfers

Mark helps clients design estate plans that go beyond standard wealth transfer, addressing preservation, legacy building, tax efficiency, and long-term stewardship for families and founders.

Strong Risk and Privacy Perspective

His background in fraud, cybersecurity, and diligence investigations gives him a distinctive ability to identify vulnerabilities and build planning structures that support privacy, security, and resilience.

Practical Insight for High-Risk Industries

Having advised businesses in blockchain, cannabis, and other high-risk sectors, Mark understands how legal planning must adapt to founders, volatile assets, and evolving regulatory environments.

Areas of Focus

Estate planning and legacy structuring for founders and families
Asset protection from creditors and external risks
Tax-efficient strategies for appreciated assets, including cryptocurrency and venture investments
Privacy and confidentiality planning in estate matters
Charitable giving and planned philanthropy structures
Heir preparedness and legacy stewardship planning
Corporate, contract, intellectual property, and employment support for high-risk businesses
Risk-informed legal strategy shaped by fraud, cybersecurity, and diligence experience

Credentials & Recognition

Estate planning, asset protection, privacy and confidentiality planning, wealth preservation, charitable giving, heir preparedness, and founder-focused legal strategy.

Experience advising startups and established businesses in blockchain, cannabis, international trade financing, and other high-risk or fast-evolving sectors.

Conducted thousands of complex fraud, cybersecurity, and diligence investigations for major institutions and now advises with a strong focus on personal and financial risk mitigation.

Also serves as Senior Advisor for Family Office Services at a corporate security firm, counseling high-net-worth individuals on privacy, cybersecurity, due diligence, and crisis issues.

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