Overview
Camille LoPresti focuses her practice on a broad range of estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxation matters. Camille advises clients on various proactive estate planning strategies, estate and trust administration, and business succession planning. Camille also counsels clients on matters regarding private foundations, charitable transfers, and family governance.
Results
- Preparation and implementation of transfer tax planning for families involving leveraged sales of interests in closely held businesses to perpetual trusts
- Implementation of trust mergers and consolidations for multi-generational families to achieve extensive tax and administrative efficiencies
- Counseling families and their businesses regarding sound governance mechanisms and developing long-term family governance plans, including family constitutions, mission statements, family councils, and shareholder committees
- Representation of family members in estate tax arbitration involving complex estate tax apportionment matters
- Representation of family member in divorce arbitration proceeding involving multi-billion dollar family company interests held in irrevocable trusts
- Preparation of wills, trusts, and ancillary estate planning documents for individuals and families
Recognitions
- The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, Trusts and Estates & Corporate Law, 2024
Community
- Chicago Bar Association, Member
- Chicago Estate Planning Counsel, Member
- Wills for Heroes Foundation, Volunteer
Credentials
Education
Georgetown University, JD/LLM Taxation, 2018
Yale University, BA American Studies, 2014
Admissions
Illinois
Languages
English
French
