About
Firm details
Firm's Managing Partner: Barb Dawson
Headquarters: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Number of attorneys: 515
Languages: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Shanghai Dialect), Czech, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Shangtonese, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese, Ukrainian
Firm overview
Founded in 1938, Snell & Wilmer is a business law firm with almost 500 attorneys practicing in 16 locations in the United States and Mexico. The firm’s clients include major national and multinational corporations, educational and research institutions, municipalities and government agencies, nonprofits, charitable organizations, industry executives and high-net-worth individuals.
Snell & Wilmer recognizes one straightforward fact — clients care less about the firm’s internal workings and more about the degree to which the firm understands their business, their industry and the trends and challenges that can affect their ability to minimize risk and maximize success. This strong external focus and the diverse experience of Snell & Wilmer’s attorneys enable the firm to help clients solve problems, achieve opportunities and deal efficiently with an ever-changing economic, business and legal landscape.
Main areas of practice (related to high net worth individuals)
- Estate Planning
- Private Client Services
- Probates
- Trusts and Estates
Firm clients face a range of challenges that affect their personal and professional goals, including difficult family legacy decisions, ongoing legislative and regulatory changes, evolving market conditions and an increased focus by tax authorities on high-wealth individuals. Simultaneously, there is no “typical” problem in the area of estate planning; the mix of life circumstances and business and personal assets is unique for every individual, family and company Snell & Wilmer serves.
At Snell & Wilmer, attorneys strive to help high net worth individuals, executors, trustees and beneficiaries accomplish specific objectives and achieve overall sound wealth management and protection. S&W attorneys have experience with estate planning, charitable planning, establishing private family foundations and public charities, business succession planning and international estate planning. We rely on our firsthand experience with estate and gift tax laws, our commitment to confidentiality and our reputation for providing high-quality representation to offer our clients comprehensive wealth management services that are tailored to their individual needs.
Relevant representative experience includes:
- Prepared estate planning documents that take advantage of the unlimited federal tax marital deduction, so there will be no estate tax at the death of the first spouse. For couples of substantial means or with significant life insurance benefits, a "credit shelter" trust is utilized to minimize taxes at the second death.
- Structured lifetime trusts for a child with a disability that would not diminish the public benefits otherwise available to the child. The child's parents also requested special planning for the long-term care issues involved with their estate planning.
- Structured the assets, pension and insurance benefits to minimize the risk to a client's family. The client, an obstetrician, wanted estate planning that would incorporate protections from potential malpractice claims.
- Argued before state Court of Appeals that language contained in a trust agreement drafted by another law firm effectively waived the benefit of the state's life insurance exemption statute.
- Assisted with tax and protection issues involving an art collection belonging to a French citizen who moved to the United States shortly before his death.
Practice areas
- AgriFinance
- Antitrust
- Appellate
- Bankruptcy & Reorganization
- Blockchain & Digital Currency
- Commercial Finance
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction
- Corporate & Securities
- Cybersecurity, Data Protection & Privacy
- Data Centers
- Education
- Election/Political
- Emerging Business
- Employee Benefits & Compensation
- Energy & Utilities
- Environmental
- Financial Services/Litigation
- Franchise Services/Litigation
- Gaming
- Government Relations
- Healthcare
- Immigration
- Infrastructure Development & Project Finance
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property & Technology
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Internal Investigations & Regulatory Compliance
- International
- Labor & Employment
- Life Sciences & Medical Technology
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mining Industry Services
- Military
- Native American Affairs
- Non-Profit/Tax Exempt Organizations
- Oil & Gas
- Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices
- Product Liability Litigation
- Professional Liability Litigation
- Public Utilities
- Real Estate
- Renewable Energy
- Retail & Franchising
- Safety & Health
- SEC Reporting & Corporate Governance
- Tax - General Federal; State & Local
- TCPA
- Telecommunications
- Transportation
- Venture Capital & Private Equity
- Water
- White Collar Defense & Investigations
- Zoning & Land Use
Offices
Mexico
- Los Cabos
United States
- Albuquerque
- Boise
- Dallas
- Denver
- Las Vegas
- Los Angeles
- Orange County
- Phoenix
- Portland (Oregon)
- Reno
- Salt Lake City
- San Diego
- Seattle
- Tucson
- Washington, D.C.
Ranked Offices
Provided by Snell & Wilmer LLP
- PhoenixOne East Washington Street Suite 2700 , Phoenix, Arizona, USA, AZ 85004
- Web: www.swlaw.com
- Tel: +1 602 382 6000
- Fax: +1 602 382 6070
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Articles, highlights and press releases
6 items provided by Snell & Wilmer LLP
Snell & Wilmer advises digital enablement solutions provider AVI-SPL in Multimedia asset acquisition
Snell & Wilmer Advises Digital Enablement Solutions Provider AVI-SPL in Acquisition of the Assets of Multimedia
Snell & Wilmer advises digital enablement solutions provider AVI-SPL in Multimedia asset acquisition
Snell & Wilmer Advises Digital Enablement Solutions Provider AVI-SPL in Acquisition of the Assets of Multimedia
Snell & Wilmer advises Greenwood as it secures $45M investment funding round led by Pendulum
Snell & Wilmer Advises Fintech Startup Greenwood as it Secures $45M Investment Funding Round Led by Pendulum
Joshua Schneiderman and Jason Wu selected for inclusion in 2022 Leaders of Influence
Los Angeles Business Journal selects Snell & Wilmer partner Joshua Schneiderman and Jason T. Wu for inclusion in 2022 Leaders of Influence - Thriving in their 40s
Snell & Wilmer Advises Blueprint Equity as it Leads Growth Equity Funding of Element451
Snell & Wilmer Advises Technology-Focused Growth Equity Firm Blueprint Equity as it Leads Growth Equity Funding of Element451
Snell & Wilmer Represents Lucid Motors in 1,400 Acre Expansion Deal
Snell & Wilmer represented Lucid Group, Inc. (Lucid Motors), a Newark, California-based company as sole outside counsel in its acquisition, development and lease agreements for an additional 1,400 acres in Casa Grande, AZ.
Snell & Wilmer advises digital enablement solutions provider AVI-SPL in Multimedia asset acquisition
Snell & Wilmer Advises Digital Enablement Solutions Provider AVI-SPL in Acquisition of the Assets of Multimedia
Snell & Wilmer advises digital enablement solutions provider AVI-SPL in Multimedia asset acquisition
Snell & Wilmer Advises Digital Enablement Solutions Provider AVI-SPL in Acquisition of the Assets of Multimedia
Snell & Wilmer advises Greenwood as it secures $45M investment funding round led by Pendulum
Snell & Wilmer Advises Fintech Startup Greenwood as it Secures $45M Investment Funding Round Led by Pendulum
Joshua Schneiderman and Jason Wu selected for inclusion in 2022 Leaders of Influence
Los Angeles Business Journal selects Snell & Wilmer partner Joshua Schneiderman and Jason T. Wu for inclusion in 2022 Leaders of Influence - Thriving in their 40s
Snell & Wilmer Advises Blueprint Equity as it Leads Growth Equity Funding of Element451
Snell & Wilmer Advises Technology-Focused Growth Equity Firm Blueprint Equity as it Leads Growth Equity Funding of Element451
Snell & Wilmer Represents Lucid Motors in 1,400 Acre Expansion Deal
Snell & Wilmer represented Lucid Group, Inc. (Lucid Motors), a Newark, California-based company as sole outside counsel in its acquisition, development and lease agreements for an additional 1,400 acres in Casa Grande, AZ.