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4 Years Ranked

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Provided by Carolyn A. Reers

High Net Worth

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Carolyn is a Partner in Wiggin and Dana’s Private Client Services Department and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee resident in the New York and Greenwich offices. Carolyn has more than 25 years of experience servicing high-net-worth individuals, their closely held companies and family offices with a focus on international estate and tax planning.

Immediately before joining Wiggin and Dana, Carolyn was a Partner at a leading international law firm, where she was integral in all aspects of trust and estate planning and administration. Carolyn was also responsible for the creation and management of public charities and private foundations.

Previously, Carolyn was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in New York and Greenwich, CT, where she worked with teams focused on global families and their family offices, as well as some of the firm’s largest hedge fund and private equity principal clients and CEOs of public and private companies.

Carolyn has written for various publications on subjects involving trusts and estates and charitable planning, and frequently lectures on international estate and tax planning topics. She has chaired the International Estate Planning Committee and International Membership Committee of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), as well as the FATF Task Force, and regularly represents ACTEC at the FATF Private Sector Consultative Forums held at the United Nations headquarters in Vienna.

Carolyn is also an active member of The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, the International Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, the American Bar Association, the New York Bar Association, and the Connecticut Bar Association.

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