INDIVIDUAL PROFILE
Neil Kawashima

Neil Kawashima

High Net Worth 2025

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About

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Practice Areas

Neil has a diverse practice, representing wealthy individuals and families on matters related to estate and gift planning, business succession, and estate and trust administration. Neil’s clients include owners of privately held businesses, beneficiaries of long-term trusts, fiduciaries and entrepreneurs.

A significant portion of Neil’s practice is focused on philanthropic matters. Neil counsels individuals and families with respect to charitable giving techniques and philanthropy, helping them to design and implement tax-efficient charitable giving strategies, negotiate gifts to charitable organizations, and to identify, formulate and enforce their charitable goals. In addition, Neil represents tax-exempt organizations such as private foundations, public charities, supporting organizations and religious groups

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Chambers High Net Worth

Private Wealth Law - Illinois

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Individual Editorial

Neil Kawashima heads McDermott's global private client practice group. Kawashima has a well respected practice focusing on charitable giving, tax structuring and tax and estate planning.

Strengths

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  • Neil Kawashima is very strategic, very responsive, He tends to do more complex work and simplifies them effectively. He has an impressive skill set.

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  • Neil has been really wonderful and a great adviser. I can go to him with any questions. As chair, he is a really great leader - helping me focus our ideas and keeping us updated on new laws.

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  • Neil Kawashima is really good and really highly regarded.

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  • Neil Kawashima is an outstanding trust and estate attorney. He's one of the top attorneys in the country in philanthropic planning.

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  • He's the head of McDermott's practice there and he has a very sophisticated practice.

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