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Christopher J Coats

Christopher J Coats

High Net Worth 2026

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Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
 Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC

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Private Wealth Law

Tennessee

9 years ranked

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Christopher J. Coats concentrates his practice in the areas of estate planning, tax law, and business law.

Mr. Coats represents family offices, high net worth individuals and families, and large family owned and closely held entities in sophisticated estate, gift, and generation-skipping tax planning, business succession planning, business transactions, income tax planning, and estate and trust administration.

Mr. Coats has extensive experience in wealth transfer planning including drafting complex wills and generation-skipping trusts, intentionally defective grantor trusts (IDGTs), grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs), revocable trusts, inter vivos QTIP trusts, life insurance trusts, charitable remainder trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, disclaimers and other estate planning instruments. In addition, he regularly prepares and reviews federal estate and gift tax returns and works with appraisers (both business and real estate) with respect to complex valuation issues related to such tax returns.

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Memphis-based Christopher Coats assists businesses and families with estates, trusts, wills and tax planning matters.

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Strengths

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  • Chris is the ultimate professional. He handles highly complex estate issues. In addition, he is very responsive to any questions that arise.

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  • Chris is able to handle the most complex matters our clients face with a unique ability to create technically sound and innovative solutions.

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  • Chris has good ideas and solutions. He communicates well too.

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