Lex J. Byers
serves as senior counselor at Argent Capital, LLC, a financial architecture
firm. He is also creator of the ASC™ Strategy. In that capacity he is
responsible for the overall regulation and structure of the company, conducting
enterprise valuations and diagnosing the fiscal health of client organizations.
Byers joined Argent, LLC following an extensive career in government, tax
research, financial analysis and marketing that spans the past 30 years.
A former
senior congressional staff member (Executive Assistant to The Honorable Eldon
Rudd - 4th District, AZ), Lex Byers uses his extensive knowledge of Washington
D.C.'s regulatory and legislative environment to keep the organization current
on pending federal tax, retirement and business issues. Additionally, he holds
membership in the Association of Corporate Counsel and is a General Associate
of the American Bar Association, where he is active in the ABA Sections on Tax
and Estate Planning.
Lex Byers’
entrepreneurial career also includes serving as government affairs manager for
the Food Marketing Institute (Washington, D.C.); government affairs manager for
the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce and executive vice president of the
Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce. Lex Byers was educated at the University of
California-San Diego and the University of San Diego. He
holds Degrees in Psychology, Communications and Law.
A recognized
expert in retirement planning, income tax mitigation and asset protection, Lex Byers
has experience structuring tax and enterprise transactions, including corporate
and limited liability company formations (domestic and offshore), acquisitions,
dispositions and mergers, buy-sell agreements, partnership agreements, joint
ventures, real estate acquisitions, dispositions and tax-deferred
exchanges. Additionally, Lex Byers has substantial experience in the
areas of ERISA, tax treatment of business enterprises and tax-deferred
entities.
His Business
Succession work focuses on transition issues for professionals and small business
owners. The primary goal of professionals and small business owners is
often to minimize taxes while retaining control of their business. To
that end, Lex Byers has extensive experience setting up both qualified and
non-qualified retirement programs with their attendant tax deferral benefits.
In his asset
protection practice, Lex Byers assists clients in protecting their assets from
potential creditors arising from personal and business
transactions. Specific, tax-neutral strategies utilizing both
onshore and offshore vehicles include the use of Asset Protection Trusts,
corporate veils, bearer shares, spendthrift trusts and International Business
Companies.
He also has
extensive experience representing clients before the IRS, the FTB, the BOE and
other taxing authorities on issues ranging from simple sales tax examinations
to complex unitary business investigations and tax controversy matters.
He is a
frequent lecturer to various financial planning and professional associations
on topics ranging from structural formation and taxation to asset protection
and retirement planning. He is an instructor for continuing education of
Attorneys, Financial Planners and Certified Public accountants lecturing on
ART: Asset protection, Retirement and advanced Tax
planning techniques.

