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Glenn G. Fox

Partner


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.

Representative Experience

  • Counsel to heirs of pharmaceutical manufacturing company in a significant family trust litigation and settlement.
  • Counsel to royal family from Europe with respect to the restructuring of various U.S. trusts that date back to the 1920s in order to avoid foreign gift taxes.
  • Counsel to family owning very successful closely held business with respect to business succession planning and possible sale of the company.
  • Counsel to public environmental charity.
  • Counsel to various charitable foundations with international ties for the purpose of establishing public charity branches in the U.S.
  • Counsel to families with significant wealth for purposes of establishing private charitable foundations.


Publications
2011
Chapter entitled “International Transfer Taxes,” in A Practical Guide to Estate Planning, edited by Rutgers University School of Law Professor Jay A. Soled and published by the American Bar Association, 2011.
November 2010
Chapter entitled “The Multifaceted Practice of Trust and Estate Law in New York,” published in Inside the Minds: Strategies for Trusts and Estates in New York, 2011 ed., November 2010.
July 8, 2010
“The HEART of the Matter Revisited: Clarification of the Expatriation Tax Rules of the HEART Act by Notice 2009-85,” BNA Estate, Gifts and Trusts Journal, July 8, 2010.

Glenn G. Fox

90 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016-1387
Phone: 212-210-9544
Fax: 212-210-9444

Education

  • New York University
    (LL.M. Taxation, 1994)
  • Albany Law School of Union University
    (J.D., 1990)
  • Cornell University
    (B.A., 1987)

Admitted to Practice

  • Pennsylvania
  • District of Columbia
  • New York
  • Connecticut
  • New Jersey