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)
- Best Lawyers in America (2018-2024)
- 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