Jeffrey A. Galant

2 Park Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10016
www.herrick.com

jgalant@herrick.com
Tel: 212-592-5905
Fax: 212-545-3307

Jeffrey Galant joins Herrick after more than 30 years of practicing law in the areas of Taxation, Trust & Estates and Tax Exempt Organizations. Jeffrey has extensive experience in sophisticated tax and estate planning matters involving family owned and other privately owned enterprises including operating businesses, investment vehicles and family foundations. He has handled a variety of complex matters from the restructuring and reorganization of business and tax exempt entities to the planning for the succession of ownership and management in a family business. Jeffrey has advised business owners in connection with the sale of their businesses and in the acquisition of new businesses. He has also provided estate planning advice to business owners and other high net worth individuals, and has handled many estate matters, representing either the executors and trustees (including institutional fiduciaries) or the beneficiaries.

Jeffrey is an adjunct professor of taxation at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Education where, in addition to taxation, he teaches a course on business succession planning. As a guest lecturer he has taught advance estate planning at New York Law School, and succession planning in family businesses at the graduate business schools of New York University and Fordham University. He has written numerous articles on taxation and charitable organizations. He is a graduate of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University Law School and New York University Law School. In addition to the American, New York State and New York City Bar Associations, Jeffrey is a member of The Florida Bar, the Federal Bar Council, the Attorneys for Family-Held Enterprises, Inc. (AHFE), The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), The Family Firm Institute (FFI) and The ESOP Association, and he is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).