Trusts & Estates
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By continually finding new and better ways to serve our clients, we’ve established ourselves as the go-to wealth transfer and planning resource for high-net-worth individuals. We are known for our ability to distill sophisticated legal concepts into clear, actionable advice and have pioneered the estate planning practices that lead the industry.
Our Trusts & Estates Practice Group builds innovative, personalized strategies that advance clients’ unique needs and protect their financial legacies. We use the same problem-solving approach to successfully represent public charities and private foundations.
We work in tandem with clients’ other advisers, such as financial planners, investment advisors, family office managers, accountants and insurance agents, to coordinate our clients’ estate plans with their financial structure.
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- Award Kirkland Featured in Chambers High Net Worth Guide
- Press Release Kirkland Advises Eldridge on Launch of the Eldridge Diversified Credit Platform and the Closing of its First Fund, EDCF
- Article The (Il)Logic of Preserving Trust Principal for Future Generations
- Award Kirkland Featured in Chambers High Net Worth Guide for 2025
- In the News Zephyr’s Adjusted for Risk: The Role of Financial Advisors in Estate Planning
- Award Lawdragon Recognizes 20 Kirkland Attorneys as Leaders in Global Tax
- Press Release Kirkland Advises RAM Spezia Holdings on Acquisition of Spezia Calcio
- Press Release Kirkland & Ellis Announces New Partners
- Article Determining Ownership in Multiple-Grantor Trusts
- Award Best Lawyers Recognizes Eleven Kirkland Partners as Lawyers of the Year 2025
- Award Kirkland Recognized in 2024 Edition of Chambers High Net Worth
- Kirkland Alert Estate and Gift Tax Update
- Article Succeeding at the Pass: Succession Planning Strategies for Family Businesses
- Award Chambers High Net Worth 2023
- Kirkland Alert Wealth Transfer Planning Update
- Speaking Engagement 48th Annual Notre Dame Tax & Estate Planning Institute
- Press Release Kirkland & Ellis Announces New Partners
- Award Chambers High Net Worth 2022
- Speaking Engagement Blended Family Estate Planning
- Award Best Law Firms 2022
- Speaking Engagement The Most Common Estate Planning Questions – Answered
- In the News Democrats’ tax plan upends estate planning using trusts with life insurance
- Private Investment & Family Office Insights Ways and Means Committee Approves Tax Plan that Poses Significant Effects for Future Wealth Transfers
- Kirkland Alert Ways and Means Committee Approves Tax Plan that Poses Significant Effects for Future Wealth Transfers
- Speaking Engagement Tax Law Changes that will Likely Effect Estate Plans in a Major Way
- In the News Help—My Child is About to Receive A Windfall!
- Award Chambers High Net Worth 2021
- Sponsored Event Family Finance Virtual Event: Create Your Legacy
- Kirkland Alert Gift, Estate and GST Tax Exemptions
- Award Chambers High Net Worth 2020
- Press Release Kirkland Announces New Partners
- Article Planning at the Eleventh Hour: Part II
- Award Best Law Firms 2019
- Award Best Law Firms 2018
- Award Best Law Firms 2017