Area of Practice: International Estate Planning and Asset Protection Leonardo Heidner is a licensed attorney in Brazil and New York State with over 20 years of combined international legal and private banking experience focusing on high net-worth clientele. In addition to providing consultation services to corporations on a range of global transactions, he has consulted American and International clients on cross-border transactions involving personal and commercial matters. Mr. Heidner has managed extensive non-U.S. and U.S. trust accounts, and served as a Director of the tax and corporate consulting division for an international firm, in addition to practicing tax planning and litigation for an extensive law practice. Heidner has earned a law degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and an LL.M degree from Fordham Law School in Corporate, Banking and Finance.

Alex Heidt has spent over 25 years in the federal government and commercial contracting business market. Prior to establishing the Heidt Law Firm, Alex Heidt worked for several of the countrys largest defense contractors such as Orbital Sciences Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Harris Corporation, and Alion Science and Technology Corporation. Alex Heidt has a broad and diverse background in law, finance, business development and P&L managment. He has an extensive contract drafting and negotiation background, and has held major negotiations both nationally and internationally. Alex Heidt played a significant role in the valuation, due diligence and negotiation of several of Lockheed Martin’s and Harris’s acquisitions.

Area of Practice: Family, Real Estate & Wills & Probate Law

Melody received her B.A. (1984) and M.A. (1985) in Economics from Boston University and her J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law in 2000. During law school, she was a member of Southwestern’s International Law Journal and moot court program. Melody was admitted to the California Bar in 2000 and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Central District of California. She has provided pro bono legal assistance to needy individuals through Public Counsel and performed volunteer work for the Los Angeles County Superior Court Domestic Violence Program. Melody practices in the areas of litigation, and probate, trusts and estates.