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Carolyn is a Partner in Wiggin and Dana’s Private Client Services Department and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee resident in the New York and Greenwich offices. Carolyn has more than 25 years of experience servicing high-net-worth individuals, their closely held companies and family offices with a focus on international estate and tax planning.

Immediately before joining Wiggin and Dana, Carolyn was a Partner at a leading international law firm, where she was integral in all aspects of trust and estate planning and administration. Carolyn was also responsible for the creation and management of public charities and private foundations.

There has been a longstanding effort globally and a lot of pressure on the United States to implement some sort of registry on a federal level for ownership of small and mid-sized entities. On today’s episode of “Future Focused: Sophisticated Estate Planning,” Partners Erin Nicholls and Michael Clear chat with Partner Carolyn Reers about the

Our world today is more interconnected than ever before, and our clients are increasingly living, working, and investing across borders. That interconnectivity can create risks for trusts. If a trust is deemed a “foreign trust” for U.S. federal tax purposes, that can cause unintended and adverse tax consequences for both the grantor (creator) of the