Band 2
Band 2
Provided by Laura M Twomey
Head of the Personal Planning Practice at Simpson Thacher, Laura Twomey advises individuals and families on the preservation, transfer and management of wealth during life and thereafter. Laura’s expansive clientele includes leaders of the financial industry, Fortune 500 CEOs, media personalities, heads of major family-owned companies and prominent political figures. Her practice includes estate planning, estate/trust administration and charitable planning, planning with private equity and hedge fund interests and family-business succession planning. She is experienced in modifying and terminating existing trusts as well as migrating trusts for tax and non-tax purposes. Laura works with clients to create a plan for transferring personal wealth that meets clients' personal goals and tax objectives. She provides technical advice in an innately personal way, ensuring seamless coordination with the Firm’s other disciplines, while keeping the personal planning process scrupulously separate from other Firm business. Laura’s estate-planning advice has been quoted in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Joined Firm as Lateral Partner, 2009; Partner, 2006
New York City Bar Association, Member of Estate and Gift Tax Committee (present, 2009-2013); American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel Fellow (2010-Present); New York State Bar Association, Co-Chair of the Committee on Estates and Trusts, Tax Law Section (2011-2013); American Bar Association, Co-Chair of the Estate and Gift Tax Committee (2014-2017); American Bar Association, Vice-Chair of the Individual and Fiduciary Income Tax Committee (2013–2015); New York City Bar Association, Member of Surrogate's Court Practice Committee (2013–2015); American Bar Association, Group Chair of Wealth and Non-Tax Estate Planning Considerations Group of the Real Property, Trusts & Estates Law Section (2010–2011); American Bar Association, Group Vice-Chair of Wealth and Non-Tax Estate Planning Considerations Group of the Real Property, Trusts & Estates Law Section (2008–2010); American Bar Association, Membership Committee of the Real Property, Trusts & Estates Law Section (2007–2011) and Corporate Sponsorship Committee (2010–2011); New York Women’s Bar Association, Member, Trusts & Estates Committee, Continuing Legal Education Committee; Board of Directors (2004–2008); American Bar Association, Chair, Non-Tax Issues Affecting the Planning and Administration of Estates & Trusts Committee of the Real Property, Trusts and Estates Law Section (2004–2008); American Bar Association, Advisor to the NCCUSL Drafting Committee to Amend the Uniform Probate Code (2006–2008)
Provided by Chambers
Laura Twomey of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has strong expertise in complex tax planning matters.
Provided by Chambers
Laura Twomey is excellent.
Laura Twomey is excellent.