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Welcome
Michael Mendelsohn, one of America's top 100 Collectors, founded Briddge Art Strategies, Ltd., a unique resource for collectors of art, antiques, and other valuable "stuff." We provide art succession planning services to collectors while working with your existing advisory team (lawyers, CPAs, and financial and insurance professionals) as well as the charitable organizations you support. We enable you to plan for the disposition of art and antiques assets during your lifetime in order to maximize the value of your collection and integrate these assets into your overall estate, financial, and philanthropic plan.
Using our innovative PowerGifting™ and art arbitrage strategies, you are able to reduce current and future federal tax liability, create tax preferred cash flow, optimize intergenerational wealth transfer, eliminate family art wars, and create philanthropic capital for charities they want to support. This approach offers planning opportunities that significantly enhance the value of the estate passing to the family and loved ones, while avoiding the loss of value resulting from a poorly planned auction sale. This also enables you to free up cash for retirement, create a fair distribution plan for your heirs, and simultaneously create an art legacy in your own name.
We also work with museums to structure gifts of art in a way that accomplishes the objectives of you as a donor and enhances the permanent collection of the receiving institution. We work with the planned giving staff at other charitable organizations such as hospitals, colleges, universities, and special interest charities to create philanthropic capital in both the near and long term.
If you are a collector, you'll see how the greatest benefit from the Briddge approach is learning to plan for the disposition of your art and antiques assets during your lifetime as part of your overall estate planning process. However, we can also be retained in postmortem situations where a probate attorney needs to find solutions that balance the need to liquidate some of the assets in a way that preserves the value of the artwork as much as possible.
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