Helen Adrian Cooper

Helen Adrian Cooper represents nonprofit organizations, individuals and estates in the administration and litigation of estates and trusts, helping clients protect their interests in both contested and uncontested matters. A North Carolina attorney in Holland & Knight's Private Wealth Services Group, she also handles income, estate and gift tax disputes.

Nonprofit organizations are at the center of Helen's practice. She primarily represents nonprofits in contested and uncontested trust and estate matters and also represents individuals as beneficiaries and executors as representatives of estates, giving her perspective on the interests of each party to an estate.

Helen also represents individuals and estates in income tax, estate tax and gift tax disputes. She began her career with Holland & Knight in its Atlanta office and later worked in the Firm's New York office. Before rejoining the Firm, she worked for a software company on transactional tax compliance – experience that adds a practical, operational perspective to her tax dispute work.

In the community, Helen has volunteered extensively with Meals on Wheels Inc. in New York City; Greenwich, Connecticut; and Morrisville, North Carolina. She currently serves as a volunteer guardian ad litem for a child in the foster care system in Wake County, North Carolina, reflecting the same care she brings to clients navigating sensitive estate and trust matters.