Private Wealth Law
High Net Worth Guide 2024 : California: Southern
Band 2
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+1 310 788 4400About
Provided by Katten
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.
Chambers Review
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.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Katten handles complex and sophisticated matters. They respond promptly to questions, provide excellent advice and are forward thinkers. They take the time to understand their clients' businesses."
"Katten do great work for clients - thoughtful, with attention to detail."
"Katten can handle very sophisticated matters.They have expertise in a broad number of areas."
"Katten handles complex and sophisticated matters. They respond promptly to questions, provide excellent advice and are forward thinkers. They take the time to understand their clients' businesses."
"Katten do great work for clients - thoughtful, with attention to detail."
"Katten can handle very sophisticated matters.They have expertise in a broad number of areas."
Notable Practitioners
Abby Feinman provides trust and estate planning advice to high net worth individuals and family-held businesses.
"I can't say enough about Abby. She is a talented attorney with extensive experience who provides excellent advice, understands complex matters, offers excellent planning ideas and is business savvy."
"Abby is incredibly gifted at working with individuals who may be somewhat difficult to work with. She explains difficult topics with ease, and is reachable and responsive."
"Abby is an absolutely amazing lawyer."
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's background and experience, responsiveness and her general care for the needs of her clients, are exceptional."
"Carol is a spectacular attorney and human being, able to parse the trickiest of situations and traverse a minefield of personality chaos."
"Carol goes above and beyond for clients to make sure their needs are met."
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California: Southern
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