Gideon Rothschild

As Chair of Moses & Singer's Trusts & Estates and Asset Protection practices, Gideon Rothschild focuses on domestic and international estate planning and asset protection.  He is a nationally-recognized authority on the use of offshore trusts and estate planning strategies for wealth preservation and succession planning.  His practice also includes estate administration and the representation of clients in taxpayer disputes at the federal, state and local levels.

Gideon serves high-net-worth individuals with assets ranging from $5 million to more than $1 billion. His clients include professionals, entrepreneurs, real estate developers and owners, closely-held business owners and directors of publicly-held companies. 

Gideon distinguishes himself from many of his peers in that his estate planning recommendations are integrated with asset protection objectives. By educating his clients on the non-tax benefits available with trusts and other vehicles and how they can be drafted in a flexible manner, his clients can achieve both tax savings and wealth preservation. Such benefits include protection from divorce, creditors or litigation exposure.

Clients describe Gideon as "one of the top asset protection attorneys in the country" and is regarded by peers as "a leading authority on asset protection." He is listed as one of the "Top 100 New York Super Lawyers," the only Trusts and Estates lawyer who received the highest point totals in the New York Metro area. Since 2006, Gideon has been listed in New York Super Lawyers® and has been singled out by Chambers USA for his substantial experience in the field of Wealth Management.  See Client Testimonials for more details about Gideon's work.

Gideon Rothschild

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Representative Matters

Gideon’s clients are high net worth individuals ranging in net worth between $5 million and more than $1 billion.  Clients include real estate investors, CEOs of public companies, professionals, hedge fund managers, entrepreneurs, and closely held business owners. They have varied needs including cross border planning, asset protection planning, estate administration, and wealth transfer planning and implementation.  He works closely as needed with financial advisors, accountants and business consultants to achieve his clients’ objectives.
 

Some of the more interesting/creative assignments consisted of the following:

• Assisting a family office with multi-generational estate and wealth preservation planning strategies.
• Assisting a U.K. resident with the purchase of U.S. real estate using a trust structure that avoids U.S. estate tax and is income tax efficient.
• Assisting a Chinese client with pre-immigration planning including the establishment of trusts and entities to minimize the impact of U.S. income and estate taxes.
• Assisting a U.S. client with creation of a foreign trust to protect his assets from potential future litigation.
• Creating a revocable trust for an incompetent person under a guardianship proceeding to effectuate a more tax efficient estate plan than under his existing Will.
• Retention as an expert witness on numerous matters involving foreign asset protection trusts.
• Developing a plan to minimize the tax consequences attributable to distributions from a foreign trust to U.S. beneficiaries.
• Represented a trust company with respect to trust litigation