About

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Wealth management is an ongoing, ever-evolving service for our private clients, which include domestic and international high-net-worth individuals, family-owned businesses, trusts and trustees, personal investment vehicles, other closely held business entities, and family offices. The complex problems confronting individual clients involve local, federal and international tax, estate planning, trust and estate administration, and litigation and alternative dispute resolution laws, rules and regulations. We focus on creating and implementing an integrated structure that will accomplish the client’s business and personal objectives in a tax-efficient and predictable manner, with sufficient flexibility to address unanticipated change. High-net-worth individuals and their family offices turn to us for unique, holistic solutions that respond to their wealth, business and estate planning needs and to their particular wishes for family governance and succession.

Our Private Client Services attorneys work seamlessly with other Katten industry and practice teams, including Trusts and Estates, Corporate, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Real Estate, Tax Planning, Antitrust and Competition, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Environmental, Financial Services, Insolvency and Restructuring, and Intellectual Property, to provide private clients with creative and comprehensive representation in all areas integrated with their wealth, business, succession and estate planning.

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Private Wealth Law - California: Southern

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What the Team is Known For

Katten's Los Angeles-based private wealth department provides estate planning and administration services, as well as charitable planning advice, to wealthy clients. Its high net worth clients include business owners and executives, entrepreneurs and philanthropists, as well as other professionals.

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Notable Practitioners

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Abby L.T. Feinman
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Abby L.T. Feinman
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Abby Feinman provides trust and estate planning advice to high net worth individuals and family-held businesses.

Abby Feinman's ability to spot issues and help clients navigate complex tax and estate planning issues is unparalleled.

Abby is extremely knowledgeable with respect to both the technical skills needed for complex estate planning as well as the practical knowledge of what works for each client.

Carol A. Johnston
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Carol A. Johnston
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Carol Johnston is experienced in handling a multitude of private wealth matters, including trust administration and estate tax issues. She is highly regarded for her dedication to her clients.

Carol Johnston goes above and beyond to meet the needs of her clients.

Carol is top notch in every possible way. I have nothing but the highest respect for Carol's expertise, strategic thinking and support.

Whenever I have high net worth clients in need of highly strategic and sophisticated estate planning services, I refer them to Carol Johnston.

She is first rate, and her communication skills with the client are excellent.

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Abby L.T. Feinman
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Abby L.T. Feinman
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Carol A. Johnston
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Carol A. Johnston
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