Katherine M. Arango

Katherine M. Arango helps high-net-worth individuals, couples and families plan for the transfer of wealth to achieve their personal goals while maximizing tax efficiency. An attorney in Holland & Knight's New York and Stamford offices and a member of the Firm's Private Wealth Services Group, she counsels clients on estate and gift tax planning, estate and trust administration and matrimonial agreements.

Katherine develops and implements estate and wealth transfer plans tailored to clients' personal, family and tax planning objectives. She routinely prepares wills, trust agreements, corporate governance documents for family entities and other wealth transfer vehicles. She collaborates with clients and their advisors to coordinate and implement these plans.

Katherine also advises individual and corporate fiduciaries on trust and estate administration and represents fiduciaries in proceedings before the New York Surrogate's Courts and Connecticut Probate Courts. Her work includes probate proceedings, fiduciary appointments and removals, as well as judicial and other accounting proceedings.

She also prepares and negotiates prenuptial and postnuptial agreements tailored to the parties' economic goals and personal circumstances. In developing these agreements, Katherine considers not only the parties' objectives but also the practical aspects of administering them over time.