Attorneys

Mr. Allison advises family offices, high net worth individuals and multinationals on a range of tax and corporate matters in transactional and planning settings, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; private equity, hedge fund and real estate investments; bankruptcy and other restructurings; transfer pricing; and estate and gift considerations.

Mr. Allison also uses his tax controversy background and experience as an in-house general counsel to advise clients on related regulatory and internal risk management issues.

Mr Gander is a US federal income tax lawyer with over 30 years of experience advising clients across a wide range of complex tax issues. He spent 26 years in the Washington D.C. and London offices of a major New York law firm and recently joined the Firm after 7 years as a partner with one of the Big Four public accounting firms. He advises high net worth clients, large public companies, financial institutions and investment funds.

In particular, he has specialized in structuring multi-party investment transactions, mergers and acquisitions, financial instruments and cross-border tax issues including the application of international tax treaties and the taxation of overseas income earned by US taxpayers.

Christina Juhn is counsel at Brick & Patel LLP concentrating in the areas of estate planning, estate and trust administration and charitable planning. Ms. Juhn’s practice focuses on the structuring and implementation of sophisticated estate, gift and generation-skipping tax planning techniques for wealthy individuals and families.

She has broad experience advising clients on structuring involving hedge fund and private equity fund interests and real estate.

Leslie Liberman is an associate at Brick & Patel LLP concentrating in the areas of estate planning and estate and trust administration. Ms. Liberman’s practice focuses on drafting wills and trust instruments.

She draws on a broad base of knowledge and experience, including from her legal career in restructuring.

Lauren Morales is an associate at Brick & Patel LLP concentrating in the areas of estate planning, estate and trust administration and charitable planning. Ms. Morales’s practice focuses on drafting wills and trust instruments.

Ms. Morales has broad experience administering decedents’ estates.

Sophie Muller is an associate at Brick & Patel LLP concentrating in the areas of estate planning and estate and trust administration.

Ms. Muller’s practice focuses on drafting wills and trust instruments and administering decedent’s estates.

Andrew designs and implements customized trusts and other planning structures to transfer wealth efficiently, preserve family assets, and facilitate business succession. He also advises on the formation and ongoing administration of charitable entities, trusts, and related structures, helping clients carry their planning objectives through implementation and administration.

Before joining Brick & Patel, Andrew practiced at two AmLaw firms. He previously clerked in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota and is a retired Army officer.

Andrew’s commitment to service extends to his pro bono work, which has included contributing to a medical-legal partnership clinic, participating in the Federal Bar Association Pro Se Project, and mentoring veterans involved in the criminal justice system.

Julianne Toia advises high net worth individuals, family offices, and institutional fiduciaries on sophisticated estate, gift, and income tax planning matters, including tax-efficient wealth transfer strategies, business succession planning, charitable giving, the negotiation of premarital agreements, and estate and trust administration.

Ms. Toia also assists charitable organizations with formation, governance, determination of tax-exempt status, grantmaking, and other ongoing operations.

Jane Tse is counsel at Brick & Patel LLP concentrating in tax-oriented domestic and international and estate planning. Ms. Tse specializes in multi-jurisdictional tax planning for non-U.S. individuals with heirs or investments in the United States, as well as U.S. individuals with foreign interests. She advises domestic financial institutions on estate planning products for private clients (U.S. and foreign), and foreign financial institutions on U.S. compliance. She also assists both individuals and charities in structuring tax-advantaged charitable giving.

Ms. Tse is currently an active member of the Estates and Surrogate’s Courts Committee in the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and a member of a subcommittee making recommendations for the revision of New York trust law. She has been a member of the Estate and Gift Taxation Committee (2008-2010) in the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

She has also participated in numerous speaking engagements and panels on international and domestic tax planning topics, sponsored by the Practicing Law Institute, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, IBC USA Conferences and Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, and has been published in Trusts & Estates Magazine.