Private Wealth Law

Venable offers a variety of services to high net worth individuals, including estate planning and tax advice. The firm's trusts and estates team has grown significantly with the recent arrival of a group of attorneys from another Baltimore firm.

"Since Venable functions as a boutique, their specialists are able to leverage off their wealth of knowledge without having to recreate the proverbial wheel. This tends to keep the costs in line."

"Venable has capable and thoughtful people."

"The team is always available and prompt and provides thorough responses to questions."

Marianne Schmitt Hellauer's practice includes advising high net worth clients on estate planning strategies, including complex business and trust structuring issues. She also represents fiduciaries in estate and trust administration. "Marianne is terrific; she has arguably the best clients in all of Maryland. She handles complicated interesting high net worth matters."

Jonathan Eisner deals with a wealth of estate and tax planning issues and is particularly experienced at handling intergenerational family planning matters. He recently joined Venable from another firm, where he was chair of the trusts and estates practice group. "He has sophisticated knowledge of complex estate planning and tax law and excellent judgement to help in discussing family priorities." "He is knowledgeable, pragmatic and has great values."

Jeffrey Gonya handles trust and estate matters and provides tax advice to high net worth clients. He also advises on trusts and estate administration matters and often serves as trustee. "Jeff is a terrific lawyer and continues to be at the highest level."

Thomas Grace's expertise spans gift, estate and generation-skipping tax optimisation strategies, among other estate planning techniques. Grace often acts as fiduciary for his clients. "He is a gentleman and a scholar, and always a pleasure to work with." "He is terrific - an absolute superstar. He is extremely capable; off the charts." "Thomas is a consummate professional with sophisticated knowledge of all things relating to estate planning and taxation. He is also very tech-savvy, has great judgement and values."