Susan Von Herrmann

Susan von Herrmann is a partner in Nutter’s Private Client Department. Susan’s clients rely on her for thoughtful counsel and strategic guidance in defining and reaching their personal and financial estate planning goals, which often include wealth preservation, tax minimization, and charitable planned giving. Her client base includes founders, senior executives at hedge, venture, and investment funds, family business owners, real estate developers, partners in professional service firms, and multigenerational families. Whether she is working with a successful executive looking to develop a plan on how to best to transition wealth while preserving family values, a multinational family seeking guidance on cross-border planning, or a young couple or single individual in need of a basic estate plan, Susan has the technical expertise and critical people skills necessary to help her clients realize their estate planning and philanthropic objectives in a tax-efficient manner.

Based in Nutter’s San Francisco office, Susan’s practice includes all aspects of sophisticated estate and tax planning, estate and trust administration, and advice regarding related disputes. She has extensive experience in devising strategies to minimize estate and gift tax liabilities and in charitable planned giving.