Professional Coordination

How We Work With CPAs & Attorneys

Coordinated guidance for decisions that rarely stand alone.

Investment decisions often intersect with taxes, estate planning, liquidity needs, risk management, and family priorities. Build Capital does not replace a client's CPA, attorney, or other professional advisers. Instead, when appropriate, we help coordinate the investment and portfolio-related elements of a broader planning conversation.

Context

Why coordination matters

For many professionals, business owners, and families, financial decisions are connected. A portfolio decision may affect taxes. A liquidity event may affect estate planning. A retirement income decision may affect cash flow, investment risk, and long-term sustainability.

Build Capital's role is to help ensure that portfolio structure, liquidity, risk exposure, and long-term objectives are considered within the context of the client's broader financial picture.

Areas of Coordination

Where Build Capital may coordinate

01

Tax-Aware Portfolio Decisions

Build Capital may coordinate with a client's CPA or tax professional when reviewing tax-aware investment decisions, asset location, capital gains considerations, withdrawal sequencing, Roth conversion discussions, and other planning items that may have tax implications.

02

Estate & Legacy Planning Coordination

Build Capital may work alongside a client's estate-planning attorney to help ensure portfolio structure, account titling, beneficiary planning, liquidity needs, and long-term family objectives are considered in relation to the client's estate plan.

03

Business Owner & Liquidity Events

For business owners preparing for a sale, succession, recapitalization, or major liquidity event, Build Capital may coordinate with CPAs, attorneys, and other advisers to help align investment planning, liquidity management, risk exposure, and long-term capital stewardship.

04

Retirement Income & Distribution Planning

As clients transition from accumulation to distribution, Build Capital may coordinate with tax and legal professionals when reviewing withdrawal strategy, cash reserves, income needs, required distributions, account structure, and portfolio durability.

05

Risk Management & Family Stewardship

Build Capital may help review how investment risk, liquidity risk, insurance considerations, and family priorities fit together, while coordinating with the appropriate professionals when specialized advice is needed.

Clarity of Responsibility

A clear division of roles

Build Capital provides investment advisory services and portfolio-related guidance. Build Capital does not provide tax, legal, accounting, or estate-planning advice and does not draft legal documents. CPAs, attorneys, tax professionals, and other qualified advisers remain responsible for their respective areas of advice.

The goal of coordination is not to blur professional responsibilities. The goal is to help clients make more informed decisions by ensuring that the right professionals are involved when their expertise is needed.

Client Fit

Who this is designed for

  • Professionals approaching retirement
  • Recently retired individuals and families
  • Business owners preparing for liquidity or succession
  • Families seeking long-term capital stewardship
  • Investors with concentrated positions or complex portfolio decisions
  • Clients who already work with a CPA, attorney, or other professional adviser

Examples

When coordination may be helpful

  • Reviewing appreciated assets or concentrated positions
  • Planning for retirement income and withdrawals
  • Preparing for a business sale or liquidity event
  • Evaluating tax-aware portfolio changes
  • Reviewing estate-planning liquidity needs
  • Coordinating beneficiary, account structure, and investment considerations
  • Managing multi-generational family wealth planning

Next Step

Start with alignment

The first step is understanding where the client is today, what decisions deserve attention, and which professionals may need to be involved. Build Capital helps clients organize the investment and portfolio-related pieces so the broader planning conversation can move forward with greater clarity.

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Client assets remain in the client's name and are held with an independent third-party custodian. Build Capital does not take custody of client assets. Build Capital coordinates with clients' attorneys, CPAs, tax professionals, and other advisers as appropriate, but does not replace those professionals or provide services outside the scope of investment advisory guidance.