Zena Tamler

Estates & Personal

Family Office & Business Advisory

Investment Management

Zena Tamler represents high net worth individuals and families in connection with their personal legal matters, with particular focus on sophisticated tax and estate planning matters and the structuring of family business affairs.

Ms. Tamler represents fiduciaries in connection with the administration of estates and trusts and advises a variety of charitable organizations. She has experience with a broad range of international tax and estate planning matters, including the taxation and administration of non-U.S. trusts and the structuring of multijurisdictional estates.

Ms. Tamler joined S&C’s Estates and Personal Group in 2001 and was elected partner in October 2009. Ms. Tamler is a member of the Committee on Estate and Gift Taxation and a past member of the Committee on Trusts, Estates & Surrogate’s Courts of the New York City Bar Association. She is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and a member of The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law. She is also a prior chair of the Trusts and Estates Group of the UJA-Federation of New York and of the Lawyer’s Division of the Anti-Defamation League. She is a member of the Board of the 14th Street Y.

New York City Bar Association (Trusts, Estates & Surrogates Courts Committee)

Harvard Law School, J.D., 2001

University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1997