About Us

Paul J. Lesti, CSSC, RSP, MSSC is the President and CEO of Lesti Structured Settlements, Inc.

He helps sellers reduce capital gain taxes when selling highly appreciated properties.

He does this as an institutional broker with major financial companies where he has access to specialized financial vehicles.

Since 1982 he has consulted on or brokered over 25,000 Structured Settlement cases. He has worked on notable cases including the collapse of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel, the Las Vegas MGM Grand Hotel fire and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Additionally, Paul worked on a pro-bono basis for the September 11th Victims Compensation Fund.

He is the author of Structured Settlements 2d, published by West – Thomson Reuters. Paul is a member of the National Structured Settlement Trade Association and the Society of Settlement Planners. He is a founding board member of the SSP. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, the NSSTA certification as a Certified Structured Settlement Consultant, CSSC, developed with the executive program at the University of Notre Dame, the designation of a Registered Settlement Planner, RSP, through Texas Tech University, and is a Master’s Certified Structured Settlement Consultant, MSSC, by NSSTA in cooperation with the University of Notre Dame.