For more information on Sullivan & Cromwell’s Estates and Personal practice, please contact James I. Black III or Basil P. Zirinis III. For more information on our Estates Litigation practice, please contact Theodore O. Rogers, Jr.

Sullivan & Cromwell’s Estates and Personal Group is one of the largest and most active groups of its kind. The Group is top ranked by prominent legal business media including Chambers USA, Chambers Global, The Best Lawyers in America and New York Super Lawyers.

Clients of our Estates and Personal Group benefit from the ability of the Firm’s lawyers to draw on S&C’s deep bench of recognized leaders in each of our core practice areas worldwide. As noted by Chambers Global, 2006 in its International Private Client section, “[t]he firm’s trump card is its massive corporate commercial resources, which mean that clients need not look elsewhere for business, tax or disputes advice.”

The Group represents individual clients worldwide in all aspects of their business and personal affairs, including:

• Estate planning
• Estate and trust administration
• Family business transition
• Tax planning and litigation
• Trusts and estates litigation and dispute resolution
• Creation and administration of family partnerships, joint ventures and property holding vehicles
• Charitable activities

In addition, we help our clients address a broad range of other personal matters, ranging from employment arrangements, investment structures and personal real estate transactions to the purchase and sale of art, yachts and aircraft, personal financial matters and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.