About Louis A. Laski
Louis Laski is a partner in the Private Wealth group and assists ultra-high-net-worth individuals with their estate planning. He provides basic "core" estate planning documents as well as more complex trusts and gifting strategies. These include grantor retained annuity trusts, sales to defective grantor trusts and all types of directed trusts in various jurisdictions. He also designs and assists in the administration of a wide range of estate planning and gift transactions.
Minimizing taxes to maximize assets
Louis has an extensive background in the Internal Revenue Code which makes him well equipped to deal with complex gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax issues as well as the intersection between transfer tax issues and income tax issues. He proposes estate planning transactions that harmonize all of the applicable taxing compilations, while still keeping the client's goals as the paramount objective. Louis prides himself on coming up with creative strategies to achieve client goals.
Practice Focus
- Private wealth
News
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August 18, 2022
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July 26, 2022
Publications
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November 17, 2022
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November 22, 2021
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September 24, 2021
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January 15, 2021
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November 24, 2020
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November 25, 2019
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December 4–7, 2018
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November 19, 2018
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February 28, 2018
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Presentations and Events
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May 9, 2023Estate Planning and the Family Business | Lighthouse Peer Advisory Group, Loyola Family Business CenterPresenter
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May 2, 2023Presenter
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September 22, 2022
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February 14, 2022Presenter | Entrepreneur Client: SPACs and QSBS
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May 20, 2021Presenter
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October 14, 2020Speaker | Advising UHNW Families During a Period of Seismic Changes
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October 15, 2019Speaker
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March 18, 2019BMO Financial Group Trusts and Estates Practice GroupSpeaker | Heckerling 2019 Roundup
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March 7, 2019Heckerling 2019 Roundup CLE presentationPresenter