USA – NEW YORK Law and Practice Contributed by: John M Teitler, Nancy A Murphy, Constance E Shields and Von Sanborn, Teitler & Teitler LLP
Teitler & Teitler LLP is a boutique law firm with over 50 years of experience counselling high and ultra-high- net-worth clients in navigating complex and high- stakes disputes, crisis management situations, and estate matters. The firm is involved across a broad array of domestic and international representations, including matrimonial, trusts and estates, corporate and commercial matters. These include settlement
and trial of complex matrimonial actions involving financial, business valuation, and custody issues, the negotiation of pre- and post-nuptial agreements, trusts and estates planning and administration, busi - ness succession planning, wealth transfer tax plan - ning, family office planning, commercial litigation, and real estate matters.
Authors
John M Teitler is a partner at Teitler & Teitler LLP, and provides fiduciary and estate planning services and advice to wealthy individuals, families and trusts, as well as litigation representation on a broad array of
Constance E Shields is a partner at Teitler & Teitler LLP and focuses on trusts and estates and estate administration for wealthy individuals and their families. She works with trusts and related business structures
topics. John has extensive experience with complex valuation issues involving art, hedge funds, private equity and investment firms. He has advised clients in various family law and estate matters in New York and elsewhere in the US, as well as matters in many non-US jurisdictions worldwide. John also provides non-litigation advice relating to pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements, art law, and asset purchases and sales both domestically and abroad.
to preserve, protect and grow family wealth for multiple generations in a tax-efficient manner. Constance counsels clients on wealth transfer tax planning, business succession planning, wealth preservation, charitable planning and private trust companies. Her clients include US individuals and foreign clients with US assets. Constance was formerly a partner at Withers Bergman LLP.
Von Sanborn is of counsel to Teitler & Teitler LLP, and advises affluent families and single- and multi-family offices on US tax, estate planning and art law matters. Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner at Day Pitney
Nancy A Murphy is a partner at Teitler & Teitler LLP, and represents clients across a broad range of personal and financial matters, including trusts and estates, estate administration, matrimonial, corporate, and
LLP and, before that, at Withers Bergman LLP. At both firms, Von had significant cross-border family office and art law practices. While at Day Pitney, he was co-chair of the firm’s art law practice as well as a core member of the firm’s family office practice. In the area of art law, Von assists clients with the purchase and sale of art, financings secured by art assets, general sales and use tax issues, as well as sales and use tax voluntary disclosures.
commercial matters. She has extensive experience advising domestic and international individuals, estates, trusts and other entities. Nancy has a wide range of experience advising clients on domestic and international pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements, out-of-court settlements and in the administration of estates and trusts, including in Canada, Italy, France, England, Germany, China and Mexico. Prior to joining the firm, Nancy worked in the bank finance and corporate departments at Shearman & Sterling LLP.
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