Mark Ghatan
Partner
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.
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.
He works closely with individuals, families, and business owners to build sophisticated estate plans focused on wealth preservation, legacy building, tax-efficient strategies for appreciated assets such as cryptocurrency and venture investments, charitable giving, heir preparedness, and confidentiality in estate matters.
Sophisticated planning shaped by entrepreneurial judgment, risk insight, and personal privacy strategy
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.
Representative areas of legal and strategic support
- 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
Work With Mark
Strategic counsel for estate planning, asset protection, privacy, and founder-focused legacy planning, backed by deep experience in risk management, security, and high-risk industries.