Private Wealth Law
Louisiana
11 years ranked
Provided by Jones Walker LLP
Miriam Wogan Henry is a partner in the Tax Practice Group and a member of the firm’s board of directors. She provides strategic counsel to clients on a broad range of tax, charitable, and estate planning matters that help individuals and families achieve their unique professional and personal objectives.
Miriam is a highly respected tax and estate-planning attorney with decades of experience providing sophisticated, strategic, and integrated counsel to individuals, family offices, business owners, and charitable organizations with unique needs. Over the course of her career, Miriam and her team have helped numerous clients reduce tax exposure, preserve wealth, achieve charitable and philanthropic goals, and support the smooth transition of business leadership from one generation to the next through multigenerational planning.
She understands the complex, often-sensitive concerns that arise at the intersection of business and family interests. Miriam works directly and closely with her clients to pursue tax- and mission-driven strategies that acknowledge and align the varying personal and business interests of entrepreneurs, owners, next-generation leaders, family members, and other stakeholders. As a strategic advisor, she helps clients identify and analyze tax, business, and charitable opportunities, develop effective tactical plans, and assemble the appropriate resources to put these initiatives into action.
In advising clients, Miriam covers the spectrum of tax and estate-planning issues, including family wealth transfers, charitable giving, and business succession planning. She works with her team of experienced partners and associates to coordinate and document wills, trusts, powers of attorney, marital property, and other agreements. Miriam also advises clients in connection with gift, estate, and generation-skipping tax matters, regularly represents clients before the US Internal Revenue Service and state tax authorities, and helps clients avoid, minimize, and resolve disputes in the context of audits, fiduciary litigation, transfer tax controversies, and related matters.
Provided by Chambers
Miriam Wogan Henry advises on trust and estate planning matters such as drafting wills, trusts, powers of attorney and marital property agreements. Her expertise also extends to handling fiduciary litigation.
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