Toni Ann Kruse

Practice Areas

Toni Ann has a broad-based estate and wealth transfer planning practice in New York. She advises ultra-high net worth individuals and families on estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax issues, trust and estate administration, state fiduciary income tax planning, and charitable gifting, as well as contested trust and estate matters. She has significant experience working with multinational clients on structuring efficient ways to benefit US persons as well as inbound and outbound planning opportunities. Toni Ann regularly works with family companies, advising on governance and succession issues between generations; drafts and administers complex estate plans; implements leveraged lifetime wealth transfer techniques; and counsels fiduciaries in complex trust and estate administration matters, often involving various asset classes across several jurisdictions.

Toni Ann was one of five attorneys selected by American Bar Association to serve as a Trust and Estates Fellow for the Real Property, Trust and Estate Section (2014–2016)

Selected as ACTEC Foundation Young Leader (2016–2018)

Professional Memberships

The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), Fellow

American Bar Association, Real Property, Trusts & Estates Section; charitable organizations co-chair

New York State Bar Association, Estate and Trust Administration Committee member

Personal

Boston College Law School, JD

Boston College, BA