Shaina Kamen

Shaina Kamen serves as general counsel to high-net-worth individuals and multigenerational families throughout New York and Florida, helping them build wealth transfer plans that reflect their goals and support family-owned businesses across generations. Her practice spans estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax planning, business succession, family office structuring and estate and trust administration.

Shaina advises clients on all aspects of estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax planning to create plans consistent with their goals. Her work emphasizes coordinating business succession planning with estate planning for family-owned business structures so ownership transitions and wealth transfer work in concert.

Beyond developing comprehensive wealth transfer plans, Shaina often acts as a resource to family offices, including trustees and other advisors, coordinating the implementation of estate plans across multigenerational family groups. She also works with family members and advisors to evaluate family office structures and needs, including restructuring existing family offices or creating new ones as objectives evolve over time.

Shaina's practice encompasses all aspects of estate and trust administration in New York and Florida, including post-mortem estate planning and federal and state estate tax matters.

Shaina frequently writes and speaks on estate planning topics relating to high-net-worth individuals and families, and she is an adjunct professor in the University of Miami School of Law's Graduate Program in Taxation. Her ability to coordinate planning across families, businesses and advisors helps clients carry out plans that endure across generations.