Distinguished
Accredited Estate Planners®
Award received November 2013
E. RANDOLPH WHITELAW
Trust Asset Consultants, LLC

E. Randolph Whitelaw is Managing Director of Trust Asset Consultants, LLC, a Trust-Owned Life Insurance (TOLI) risk management consulting firm, and The TOLI Center, LLC, a life insurance policy administration and risk management firm. His firms' clients are corporate trustees, professional advisors, affluent family groups and family-owned businesses.

A leader in the Trust-Owned Life Insurance (TOLI) risk management and restructure marketplace, Mr. Whitelaw is frequently engaged by professional fiduciaries and estate planning professionals to provide expert opinion and testimony in dispute and litigation matters. He lectures nationwide and regularly authors in-depth peer-reviewed articles that illustrate his comprehensive knowledge of the ever-changing life insurance and life settlement markets.

Mr. Whitelaw has a corporate finance and capital markets background. He spent 15 years with a major bank holding company working with its public corporation and larger private business clients. His lending experience includes coordination of multi-lender 'work-out' borrowing arrangements and interface with OCC bank examiners. As Executive Vice President, he managed the holding company's middle market business and private client group including the cross marketing of trust investment, and life insurance services.

In the mid-1980s, Mr. Whitelaw founded a consulting firm to specialize in the unique management and business continuity planning issues of larger family businesses, affluent family groups and family offices as well as the design, implementation and management of non-qualified deferred compensation plans for public and larger private corporations. In 1993, he co-founded and served as managing partner of a fee-based third-party TOLI policy administration company (now known as THE TOLI Center, LLC) that developed a national reputation and clientele among regulated trustees and estate planning professionals.

In 2001, Mr. Whitelaw founded Trust Asset Consultants, LLC (TAC) to provide corporate trustees, professional advisors, and insurance trust beneficiaries with "single source" TOLI fiduciary risk management consulting services. In 2004, he co-founded Life Settlement Partners, LLC, a life settlement consulting firm that works exclusively with policy sellers.

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