Barry Engel

Barry S. Engel is a well known asset protection attorney and the founding principal of Engel & Reiman pc (1984) located in Denver, Colorado. He introduced the legal concept of asset protection in the 1980s.

He is one of three co-authors of the 1989 amendments to the Cook Islands International Trust Act (1984), as enacted by the Parliament of the Cook Islands. The first asset protection specific statutory trust law of its kind, this enactment has served as the model for similar trust law as subsequently adopted in more than 20 offshore financial centers and by more than a fifth of our country’s state legislatures.

He is the author of Asset Protection Planning Guide, now in it second edition, as published by CCH Incorporated, Chicago, Illinois. He has written extensively on all aspects of asset protection and on its relationship with estate planning. His writings have contributed in large part to the widespread acceptance of asset protection planning and to how it is undertaken today by the planning community on behalf of clients. He has also chaired or otherwise participated in hundreds of continuing education programs for lawyers, CPAs, financial planners and other professionals, both domestically and abroad.

Barry Engel is designated a Colorado Super Lawyer, which is a peer-review distinction bestowed upon only 5% of the lawyers in his home state. His past appointments include Presidency of the Isle of Man-based Offshore Institute (1992–1997), the Executive Committee of the Offshore Institute (1992–2003), the Editorial Board of UK-based Trusts & Trustees, Consulting Editor of the International Offshore and Financial Centres Handbook and of the Offshore Institute Membership Directory and Analysis (1996–2000). He founded and served as the Consulting Editor of Shore to Shore, an offshore industry magazine published calendar-quarterly by Highbury House Communications PLC, London. Barry Engel is also a keynote speaker for the 2013 OffshoreAlert Conference He is also a frequent speaker and continuing legal education instructor for Celesq Attorney Education

Barry Engel has also been cited in several American Bar Association articles as a leader in asset protection law including the following: Protect Assets Before Lawsuit Arises, Castaway, and Offshore Trust Busting.

Barry Engel graduated with honors from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1979. He is a member of the International, the American and the Colorado Bar Associations, and is admitted to practice before the Colorado State and District Courts and the U.S. Tax Court.