Practice

Estate Planning and Wealth Transfer

Experienced Counsel for Every Wealth Planning Need

Sheppard provides estate planning, trust administration and wealth transfer counsel to families, businesses and fiduciaries worldwide. 

Our team helps clients protect assets, minimize taxes and achieve succession goals for both personal and business interests. 

Custom Strategies for Preserving and Transferring Your Legacy

Preserving and transitioning wealth requires a plan tailored to your family’s unique priorities, dynamics, business interests and charitable goals.

Our lawyers develop and implement bespoke estate plans using wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, family limited partnerships and LLCs, grantor trust structures, charitable vehicles, insurance trusts, private foundations, property agreements, durable powers of attorney and lifetime gifting programs. 

We deliver sophisticated, tax-efficient solutions, focusing on strategies that maximize wealth transfer and minimize income, gift and estate tax exposure. Our services include hands-on preparation of gift and estate tax returns to ensure compliance and efficiency. 

For owners of closely held businesses, we structure succession plans that balance operational continuity, family interests and liquidity objectives. Our lawyers advise on management succession, buy/sell agreements and governance frameworks designed to meet both tax and business needs while securing your family’s financial future. 

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