Michael S. Williams

Mike Williams is a partner in the Tax and Wealth Management Department. Mike concentrates his practice in the field of wealth preservation and planning including the areas of complex estate and business succession planning, estate and trust administration, income tax planning for trusts and estates, private foundation planning, and marital agreements.

In addition to drafting wills, revocable trusts, powers of attorney, and living wills, Mike has expertise in drafting generation-skipping transfer tax exempt dynasty trusts, intentionally defective grantor trusts, insurance trusts, charitable remainder trusts, Crummey trusts, and special purpose trusts. Mike’s expertise in income tax planning for trusts and estates encompasses planning for large closely-held business interests, net investment income tax issues, and multi-state tax issues.

Mike also assists clients in all aspects of setting up and administering private foundations to help clients further their charitable aims. In addition to drafting private foundation formation documents, Mike prepares applications for recognition of exemption from taxation from the Internal Revenue Service and provides advice and assistance on private foundation excise and unrelated business income tax issues.