Counsel
New York
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F +1 212 697 1559
Paris
P +33 1 42 68 72 00
F +33 1 42 66 39 62
Beth J. Kerwin is Counsel in Curtis’ Private Client and Trusts and Estates group and specializes in complex US and international estate, trust and tax planning for high net-worth individuals and families, their advisory teams and fiduciaries. Ms. Kerwin also has substantial expertise with respect to charitable gift planning and trust and estate administration.
Prior to joining Curtis, Beth has demonstrated thought leadership through numerous presentations and lectures on a wide-array of topics that include estate planning, tax and wealth management, and cross-border planning. She has spoken on a variety of topics at American Bar Association Tax Section meetings and as a guest lecturer at Fordham University School of Law. She was a co-author of Selected Subchapter J Subjects at the Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning in 2018, and has been recognized as a Rising Star in New York Super Lawyers in 2016, 2018, and 2019, and Michigan Super Lawyers in 2013.
Ms. Kerwin was a recipient of the Crowe & Dunlevy Graduate Tax Scholarship (merit based) at New York University School of Law, where she received her LL.M. in Taxation. She also was Note Editor of the Michigan Journal of International Law.
English
New York University School of Law, Taxation, LL.M
University of Michigan Law School, J.D., cum laude
University of Michigan, Political Science, B.A., with high distinction
UJA Federation of New York, Trusts and Estates Committee Member (2016 - Present)
Michigan
Private Client
Trusts and Estates
Tax
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[Counsel Beth Kerwin] "Specializes in US tax planning for ultra-high-net-worth individuals, working across the New York and Paris offices."
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