Christiana Lazo is an associate in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm's New York office. Christiana focuses her practice on all aspects of wealth transfer, tax and estate planning for domestic and international high net worth individuals. Christiana works with clients to develop and implement sophisticated tax and estate plans and advises on the resulting estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax consequences. She has significant experience counseling on the formation and operation of charitable foundations and in counseling fiduciaries in estate administration.
Prior to joining the Firm, Christiana was an associate at an international law firm in New York, where she worked in the trusts and estates department.
Christiana is admitted to practice in New York and Massachusetts and is a member of both the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
Education
- New York University School of Law, L.L.M., 2011
- Columbia Law School, J.D., 2006
- Columbia College, B.A. (cum laude), 2003
