Blake Harris is the founding principal of Blake Harris Law, The Offshore Asset Protection Law Firm. He represents clients across the United States in offshore asset protection planning built on Cook Islands trusts. The firm protects clients’ wealth from future creditor claims through jurisdictional diversification and carefully drafted trust structures. Blake Harris coordinates with clients’ existing estate and tax counsel so the offshore trust fits their broader plan.
Blake Harris earned a B.S. in Finance from the University of Florida in 2007 and a J.D. from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2010. He is admitted to practice in Florida and Colorado and holds active memberships in professional organizations for trust, estate, and international law practitioners. Before founding Blake Harris Law, he worked in wealth management advising high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients. That work shaped his focus on defensive wealth preservation.
His partner, Ali El-Haj, is an asset protection attorney at Blake Harris Law and is admitted to practice in New York. He holds an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge and an LL.B. with First Class Honours from University College London. At UCL he received the John Frederic Whitehouse Essay Award for the best LL.B. dissertation in his graduating class. He has lectured in law at Humboldt University of Berlin and served as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg. He also practiced at international law firms, including in international arbitration. Ali presents CLE programs on offshore trusts and compliance through national providers including the National Academy of Continuing Legal Education (NACLE), myLawCLE, LawPractice CLE, and Cerifi LegalEdge.
Blake Harris Law is a boutique practice dedicated to offshore asset protection through Cook Islands trusts. The firm handles trust drafting and formation, trustee and protector selection, funding protocols, and guidance on IRS and FinCEN reporting obligations. Contingency planning for duress events and expedited timelines are central to the model. Every engagement runs on a flat fee with coordinated funding templates.
Clients choose Blake Harris for a few specific reasons. The practice has a narrow, technical focus on offshore structures. It works with a global network of licensed trustees, protectors, and banks. And it takes a hands-on approach to trustee selection and operational readiness. Blake Harris Law co-founded Atlas Trust Company, a Cook Islands trust company licensed by the Financial Supervisory Commission. Because the firm is directly involved with the trustee it recommends, clients get faster response times and a closely vetted trustee. That relationship, together with the firm’s cross-border coordination experience, is the core of what it offers.
Blake Harris writes and presents CLE programs on asset protection. He publishes practical guidance for financial advisers and lawyers, including how to integrate asset protection into retirement planning and jurisdictional diversification. He regularly presents CLE courses on offshore planning through national providers, sharing compliance-focused approaches to trust selection, funding, and creditor-response playbooks.
Blake Harris has led an effort to correct the public record on foreign asset protection trust (FAPT) case law. He has secured the removal and correction of several published lists that misrepresented FAPT cases as failures. The court record shows domestic asset protection trusts (DAPTs) failing in reported cases, while properly structured FAPTs have not. Beyond transactional work, the firm has also pursued litigation when marketplace practices raise consumer protection concerns. In 2025, it filed a federal court complaint alleging deceptive marketing and unfair competition by parties offering asset protection services without proper legal supervision. This advocacy shapes the firm’s emphasis on transparency and on helping clients verify licensure.
U.S. clients face real exposure: high litigation volume in some sectors, aggressive creditor collection practices, and state-law protections that vary widely and differ from offshore solutions. The key challenges are timing (transfers must happen before claims arise), fraudulent transfer risk, IRS and FinCEN reporting when offshore elements are used, and choosing trustees with genuine independence and regulatory standing. Experienced counsel matters because outcomes depend as much on execution, trustee choice, and funding discipline as on the trust document. Blake Harris’s published guidance treats these operational details and client disclosures as central to effective planning.
Blake Harris represents business owners, professionals, real estate investors, and high-net-worth individuals and families across the United States. These clients need well-documented protection for real property, investment portfolios, business interests, and digital assets. The practice builds offshore trust structures that stay fully compliant with tax and regulatory requirements. The firm also works as co-counsel with U.S. attorneys when a matter needs coordination with existing estate planning or tax advisers.
Asset protection planning is legally and factually complex. Timing, jurisdiction, trustee choice, and compliance all affect the result. Blake Harris brings focused technical knowledge, peer recognition, and the operational relationships that matter in an emergency, including a Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent rating. For individuals and businesses who value certainty and defensibility, counsel who pairs careful trust drafting with practical trustee selection and funding protocols can materially reduce risk.
For individuals and companies evaluating their risk, the first steps are a risk assessment, a review of existing entity ownership and title, and an open discussion of timing and reporting obligations. Blake Harris’s published materials and CLE instruction stress asking the right questions about trustee licensing, insolvency timing, and coordinated tax reporting. Every client needs to resolve these before adding an offshore component. Documented advice from experienced counsel helps make sure a structure is lawful, defensible, and aligned with the client’s broader estate and business plans.
Blake Harris is the founding principal of Blake Harris Law, a Florida- and Colorado-admitted asset-protection lawyer. He holds a B.S. in Finance (2007) and a J.D. (2010) from the University of Florida, and is known for planning that blends offshore and domestic strategies.
The firm focuses on offshore asset protection, including Cook Islands trusts entities, trust drafting and formation, trustee and protector selection, funding protocols, IRS and FinCEN reporting guidance, duress planning, and coordinated funding templates under flat-fee engagements.
A narrow technical focus on offshore structures, a global network of licensed trustees and protectors, hands-on trustee selection and operational readiness, and co-founding Atlas Trust Company (a licensed Cook Islands trust company) to support rapid response and robust trustee options.
Business owners, professionals, real-estate investors, and high-net-worth individuals and families in Florida and across the U.S. seeking protection for real property, investment portfolios, business interests, and digital assets, often coordinated with U.S. estate or tax counsel.
Timing is critical (transfers must occur before claims arise); fraudulent-transfer risk; IRS and FinCEN reporting obligations when offshore elements are used; and ensuring trustee independence, regulatory standing, and disciplined funding and execution—the trust document is only part of the plan.
Begin with a risk assessment, review existing ownership and titles, discuss timing and reporting obligations, inquire about trustee licensing and insolvency timing, and obtain specialist, documented advice to ensure lawful and defensible structures.
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