About StayRich.law
StayRich.law provides world-class asset protection advice, education, consultation and planning for high net worth individuals who want more than generic trust packages. We help clients think clearly about exposure, ownership, control, governance, and implementation as foundational to lawful, operationally realistic, and effective asset protection.
Three Essential Elements
Our plans are designed to avoid critical planning and execution errors court have used invalidate asset protection structures.
Most asset-protection marketing focuses on the formation of a trust or an LLC in a “safe” jurisdiction. That is too shallow. When asset protection structures fail in court, the failure usually results from real-world facts not match the paperwork. Accounts are commingled. Contracts are signed incorrectly. Ownership maps drift. Managers ignore legal formalities. A court or creditor then argues that the structure is cosmetic. Our approach starts from the opposite premise: design the structure the way an adversary, regulator, bankruptcy trustee, or plaintiff’s lawyer will test it. That means disciplined planning around leverage points, recordkeeping, solvency, governance, counterparties, and practical control.
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We design as if a motivated opponent will use courts to test timing, intent, control, capitalization, signatures, banking, and operational conduct.
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Compliance discipline
We treat onboarding, documentation, tax reporting, KYC/AML compliance, and annual maintenance as core architecture rather than afterthoughts.
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Operational reality
A structure must fit the client’s actual life: how assets are used, who moves money, who signs documents, where accounts sit, and how flexible the plan needs to be.
Our Leadership
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Our Managing Director, Sean R. Coutain is a Harvard Law School graduate and Legal Risk Management executive whose career has focused on the design, assessment, and defense of sophisticated compliance and risk-management systems. His background spans regulatory compliance, white-collar defense, corporate investigations, privacy, enterprise risk management, and corporate governance at elite law firms and major technology companies.
Mr. Coutain began his legal career in the white-collar and regulatory practices of Wall Street powerhouses Proskauer LLP and Skadden, where he represented companies and senior executives in high-stakes civil, criminal, and regulatory matters. His work included investigations involving securities fraud, accounting issues, insider trading, FCPA concerns, FINRA matters, and other enforcement-sensitive issues. He also worked on audit committee and special committee investigations, public-company filings, venture financing documents, and complex corporate transactions.
He later moved in-house and into executive leadership roles, where his work shifted from risk response to risk mitigation at major Silicon Valley technology companies. At Snap, he helped design and build the company’s integrity and compliance function in preparation for its IPO, including risk assessment processes, compliance operations, internal reporting infrastructure, due diligence systems, and policy architecture. At Applied Materials, he led major compliance-program development and integration work at the executive level. At Meta, he advised on cross-functional third-party risk management and internal controls tied to privacy, data security, trade compliance, corruption, conflicts of interest, and regulatory enforcement.
Through StayRich.law Mr. Coutain now provides individual clients with same level of sophistication that benefitted his Wall Street and Silicon Valley enterprise clients.
