Adam Garber
High Net Worth Guide 2024
Band 4 : Private Wealth Law
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About
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Practice Areas
Adam Garber is a partner in Levenfeld Pearlstein's Trusts & Estates Group, where he focuses on providing families with the tools necessary to transfer their assets from one generation to the next. Adam understands that there is no such thing as a "one-size-fits-all" approach to estate planning. Each family and family business has its own unique set of circumstances. Adam tries to dig deep into each family's unique situation to craft a tailored plan that will best suit their needs. He also understands that estate planning is about real people. His first priority is ensuring his clients' wishes are met in the most effective way.
More specifically, Adam's practice involves helping family business owners handle their daily challenges as well as plan for the succession of their businesses. Licensed as a certified public accountant as well as an attorney with an LL.M in taxation, Adam brings particular insight into tax issues as they relate to asset planning, and has extensive experience drafting wills, trusts, and other estate-planning documents. Adam’s practice also involves a wide scope of financial, estate and tax planning matters as they relate to business and asset ownership in various forms.
Adam is a member of the esteemed estate planning organization, the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). ACTEC membership is based on professional reputation, expertise in the fields of trusts and estates and on the basis of having made substantial contributions to these fields through lecturing, writing, teaching and bar activities.
Adam previously worked at a large Chicago firm where he handled all aspects of estate planning with a focus on the tax compliance aspects of an estate plan. He regularly prepared estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax returns. He also defended estates under audit by the Internal Revenue Service. Adam also supervised estate administration from the opening of probate through the ultimate implementation of the estate plan.
Adam partners with North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic providing free Power of Attorney to college students.
Professional Memberships
Chair of the Chicago Bar Association Trust Law Committee
American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
Anti-Defamation League Board
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation
Ben Gurion Society – Jewish United Fund
Chambers Review
High Net Worth
Adam Garber helps wealthy individuals and businesses with their wealth transfer and succession aims. He leverages his expertise in tax to tailor structures to specific client circumstances.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Adam is probably the most responsive lawyer with whom I have worked. He has a high level of experience in sophisticated matters and good interpersonal skills. It is really a pleasure to work with him."
"Adam's my first call for a client who needs help with estate planning. Not only is Adam extremely responsive, but he's an out-of-the-box thinker who does a great job collaborating with other advisers."
"Adam is probably the most responsive lawyer with whom I have worked. He has a high level of experience in sophisticated matters and good interpersonal skills. It is really a pleasure to work with him."
"Adam's my first call for a client who needs help with estate planning. Not only is Adam extremely responsive, but he's an out-of-the-box thinker who does a great job collaborating with other advisers."