Jennifer Ewing

Jennifer Ewing advises high net worth individuals, families, corporate executives, and entrepreneurs on a wide range of trusts and estates matters. She has experience with sophisticated estate planning, trust administration, and estate settlement and works with clients to create tax-efficient estate plans and deploy techniques to aid the accumulation, preservation, and transfer of wealth.

In addition, Jennifer serves as a trustee of many family trusts and works with donors and beneficiaries across multiple generations. As a fiduciary, she works closely with clients to ensure that trusts are administered in a way that is tax-efficient and responsive to their priorities and goals.

Recognition

  • Chambers High Net Worth (2023-2024)
  • Best Lawyers in America (2018-2025)
  • Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly: Go To Lawyer - Trusts & Estates (2021)

Representative Engagements

  • Handled complex gift tax and GST tax reconciliation through the preparation of historical gift tax returns and the related division of trusts.
  • Regularly implements GRATs, sales to intentionally defective grantor trusts and other tax-leveraged techniques involving irrevocable trusts.
  • Works with multi-generational families (both wealth creators and beneficiaries) to coordinate effective transfers of wealth and foster educational understanding of long-term financial goals.
  • Helps clients in private equity industry transfer carried interests and other business interests to trusts for descendants.
  • Regularly serves as trustee and valued family advisor for clients during lifetime and after death for irrevocable trusts and shared investment vehicles.

Publications and Presentations

  • “Ethics of Family Dynamics in Estate Planning,” presenter, MCLE presentation, June 2018

Education & Credentials

Harvard Law School
JD, 2006, cum laude
Princeton University
BA, 2003, summa cum laude

Admissions

Massachusetts

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