Glenn Fox is a member of the Alston & Bird’s Wealth Planning and Exempt Organizations Groups. Mr. Fox represents domestic and foreign clients in a variety of estate, trust, tax and tax exempt matters. His estate planning practice focuses on the use of sophisticated wills, trusts and closely held entities to enable clients to pass assets to future generations with the imposition of the least amount of estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes.
Mr. Fox has particular expertise in dealing with the disposition of closely held business interests, qualified retirement assets, and foreign assets. Mr. Fox has extensive experience in the foreign trust arena and with the various estate and gift tax treaties between the U.S. and other countries. Mr. Fox’s estate administration and exempt organization practices also include domestic and foreign clients with worldwide interests and complement his estate planning practice.
Mr. Fox is a member of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). He has also been recognized as a “New York Super Lawyer” in New York Times magazine for the past four years. Mr. Fox is Executive Vice Chair of the International Section of the New York State Bar Association, is a co-chair of the Committee on International Trusts and Estates of the Section, and was a co-chair of the Section’s 2009 Seasonal Meeting in Singapore. In addition, Mr. Fox is a member of the New York State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Section, the Committee on Trusts, Estates, and Surrogate’s Courts of the New York City Bar, and the Trusts and Estates Committee of the UJA-Federation of New York, where he is the 2012 Event Chair, and is a past member of the Committee on Estate and Gift Taxation of the New York City Bar.