Evelyn Sheehan
Evelyn Sheehan
Partner | Kobre & Kim
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Civil Fraud
Dispute Resolution or Arbitration
Trusts: Contentious
Office Location
United States
Short Biography
Evelyn Sheehan focuses her practice on advising high net worth individuals, institutional clients, executives and trustees in high profile cross-border disputes, including investigations and enforcement actions, and trust disputes. She formulates offensive and defensive global litigation strategies, including in relation to civil and criminal asset forfeiture and insolvency litigation. Ms. Sheehan also has an active international judgment enforcement and asset recovery practice, including the representation of individual and institutional victims of crime. Her matters regularly involve legal actions across multiple jurisdictions and mobilizing both public and private remedies. She has unique experience designing recovery strategies for claimants and insurers in the cryptocurrency industry. As a result of her experience and expertise, she has been recognized by many directories, including Chambers and Partners USA and CityWealth.
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I’ve been saying this for years now, but there is a steady drumbeat of enforcement focus on professional gatekeepers who allegedly facilitate money laundering or sanctions evasion. This is happening more and more in the United States, Latin America and EMEA. I’ve also been seeing a concerning amount of erosion of due process when it comes to the freezing or seizure of assets of unpopular groups.
Ellen Bonito
Ellen Bonito
Managing Director | Andersen Tax
JURISDICTION
United States
TOP SPECIALISMS
Charitable Planning and Philanthropy
Family Office
Trusts: Planning
Office Location
United States
Short Biography
Ellen Bonito has been practicing in the accounting industry since the mid-1990’s. Ellen specializes in sophisticated income and estate tax planning for high net worth individuals and families, including income tax planning and compliance, succession and estate tax planning, carried-interest planning, and charitable gifting. Ellen has extensive experience with partnership, gift, estate, trust, foundation and individual taxation. Ellen’s clients include family offices, entrepreneurs, high-level executives of public companies as well as founders and managers of private equity, hedge and venture capital funds. Ellen also serves high-profile entertainers, athletes, artists and musicians. While in graduate school, Ellen was the recipient of the “Academic Excellence Award,” an honor bestowed upon the valedictorian of the Masters in Accountancy program at University of Notre Dame. Ellen is a contributor to the treatise Tax Economics of Charitable Giving. She has also been published in the periodical Taxation of Exempts.
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What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Have the courage to follow a path that may be different than the one others tell you is the path to success.
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What is the book you recommend to everyone?
The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIO Operatives by Ted Gup
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Elizabeth Kubanik
Elizabeth Kubanik
European Counsel | Sullivan & Cromwell
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Trusts: Planning
Tax Advisory
Office Location
United Kingdom
Short Biography
Elizabeth Kubanik is a European Counsel in Sullivan & Cromwell’s London office and has been a member of the Estates and Personal Group since 2011. Elizabeth has been based in the London office since September 2019; previously she was based in the New York office. She has participated in the representation of U.S. and international families and fiduciaries with respect to a broad range of tax and planning issues, including extensive advice with respect to trust and family business planning and charitable planning.
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Dina Kapur Sanna
Dina Kapur Sanna
Partner | Day Pitney
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Trusts: Planning
Tax Advisory
Office Location
New York, United States
Short Biography
Dina Kapur Sanna has 25 years of experience in advising U.S. and non-U.S. taxpayers on wealth management structures which accommodate multi-jurisdictional tax and legal considerations. Her practice involves foreign trusts, pre-immigration and expatriation planning, planning for the purchase of U.S. property by non-U.S. persons and compliance with tax and reporting obligations for those with overseas interests in foreign accounts, corporations and trusts. Dina is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and a member of its International Estate Planning Committee. Dina is recognized as a practitioner in international estate planning by Chambers HNW* (Chambers & Partners), Chambers Global*, Private Client Global Elite (ALM Media Properties, LLC), and The International Who's Who of Private Client Lawyers.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Harry Cipriani
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Hope for the best but plan for the worst
What was your first job?
Newspaper girl
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
God of Small Things
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
With an election looming, tax changes on the horizon and middle east crisis deepening, we expect to see a lot of movement between borders and individuals taking additional actions to shore up their structures and safeguard their wealth.
Dean Berry
Dean Berry
Partner, Head of Private Client | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Trusts: Planning
Tax Advisory
Office Location
New York, United States
Short Biography
Dean Berry is head of the Private Client Department at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP in New York. He specializes in complex international trust and estate planning for U.S. and non-U.S. high net worth individuals and family groups. He works with clients to develop effective and tax-efficient strategies for the preservation, governance and transfer of private wealth, using vehicles such as trusts, private companies, partnerships and foundations. He also represents professional fiduciaries, philanthropic donors and non-profit charitable organizations. He lectures at seminars and conferences around the world, and is a member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law.
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What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
What was your first job?
Paperboy
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
À la recherche du temps perdu (in English), even if they only get through the first 40 pages. It gets quite funny later on.
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David Mizrachi
David Mizrachi
Founder | MDU Legal
JURISDICTION
United States
TOP SPECIALISMS
Dispute Resolution or Arbitration
Family Governance and Business
Transactions
Office Location
Panama
Short Biography
An accomplished legal practitioner, author and University educator with a multijurisdictional perspective. Mr. Mizrachi has a keen understanding of transactions and dispute resolution with an emphasis on cross border issues, particularly in private client and private investment matters. He is professionally fluent in Spanish and English as well as a certified translator. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA), Tulane Law School (JD cum laude) and Columbia Law School (LLM).
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Aroma Gourmet
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
It is nice to be important, but more important to be nice
What was your first job?
Associate at Adorno & Zeder, a Miami Law Firm
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
Pirke Avot
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
Increase in international arbitration matters
Darrell King
Darrell King
Managing Director, Crestbridge Fiduciary | Crestbridge Fiduciary
JURISDICTION
United States
TOP SPECIALISMS
Fiduciary
Trusts & Trusteeship
Office Location
United States
Short Biography
I have worked with wealthy global families and their advisors for 25+ years. Most often, those families are seeking to invest in the US, transfer wealth to family members now in the US, or move to the US. My firm, Crestbridge Fiduciary, focuses exclusively on providing fiduciary structures, working with those families who require a US or foreign based trust structure, or both, to support their investment, tax and estate planning objectives. Crestbridge is a recognized expert in this space, providing a unique combination of expertise, a boutique approach, global reach and a flexible fee structure to match up to client needs. I assist by organizing and delivering our resources in an effective and efficient manner. I am based in New York City.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Italian!
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
Always take the shot
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What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
Lees change and more of the same- continued use of US situs trusts by wealth foreign families with a US nexus, to support their succession planning
Daniel Channing
Daniel Channing
Director and Board Member | Crestbridge Family Office Services
JURISDICTION
Jersey, United States
TOP SPECIALISMS
Family Office
Fiduciary
Trusts & Trusteeship
Office Location
Jersey
Short Biography
With over 15 years’ experience working with global UHNW families and family offices, Daniel is a director of Crestbridge Fiduciary and a member of the Crestbridge Family Office Services board. Daniel’s key responsibility is developing and maintaining longstanding relationships with our families and family office clients. He provides support through the practical implementation and operation of bespoke fiduciary structures, designed to preserve and enhance clients’ global asset portfolios and support effective succession planning. Along with considerable experience supporting clients and advisers in the implementation and management of effective family succession planning solutions and multi-jurisdictional fiduciary structures, Daniel is highly proficient in overseeing the operation of robust governance frameworks. Daniel began his career in the private wealth group of a leading offshore law firm, before serving in senior board positions in family offices and international bank-owned trust and fiduciary service companies in both Jersey and Europe.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Cecconi
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
That there is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking
What was your first job?
Trust Administrator
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
Anything by Tom Bower
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
More complex challenges with a desire from clients to navigate them with support from their team of advisors
Christopher Boyett
Christopher Boyett
Partner | Holland & Knight
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Estates: Planning
Trusts: Planning
Office Location
Florida, United States
Short Biography
co-chairs Holland & Knight's National Private Wealth practice. Mr. Boyett advises domestic and international wealthy families throughout Florida on sophisticated estate planning strategies and options and counsels family businesses on succession planning and tax planning. Additionally, he advises both institutional and individual clients on estate and trust administration issues.
What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?
Contessa in the Design District
What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
My mentors always said that there is no replacement for hard work.
What was your first job?
My first job as a camp counselor for 4-6 year olds. It was a great job.
What is the book you recommend to everyone?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?
The needs of wealthy families and family offices are increasing in volume and sophistication.
Charlotte Thorne
Charlotte Thorne
Founding Partner | Capital Generation Partners
JURISDICTION
TOP SPECIALISMS
Asset Management
Office Location
United Kingdom
Short Biography
Charlotte Thorne has been helping wealthy individuals navigate the financial services industry for over 20 years. In co-founding Capital Generation Partners (CapGen) in 2007, she helped build a firm that is unique in the marketplace; exclusively serving UHNW families to create unique and sophisticated investment solutions across Portfolio Management, Commercial Real Estate and Direct Investments. In both launching CapGen and working side-by-side with clients, Charlotte has become a driving force in the industry, helping families get more out of their investment managers, and in turn, helping the investment industry better understand and adapt to the needs of family investors. Charlotte heads the firm’s Risk Committee and also launched CapGen’s Responsible Capital program; an initiative designed to help the firm and its clients actively meet the environmental and social challenges the world faces today.
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