Both Attorneys Join Firm’s Trusts and Estates Practice
PORTLAND, Ore.
– Pacific Northwest law firm Miller Nash LLP announced the addition of two prominent attorneys, Kay Abramowitz and June Wiyrick Flores, who join the firm’s trusts and estates practice. Both Abramowitz and Wiyrick Flores, who were previously with Portland firm Ater Wynne, bring with them close to 50 years’ experience in estate planning and estate and trust administration.
Abramowitz, who focuses on advising family-owned businesses, is a frequent lecturer and is recognized for her experience in succession and transfer issues found in family-owned businesses. These include assisting owners in identifying the next owners, leaders and managers and assisting with tax-sensitive strategies of transferring business assets to the next owners. She also assists her clients with probate-avoidance trusts, tax-planning trusts, special-needs and special-purpose trusts and charitable remainder trust and asset-protection strategies. Her clients include owners and executives of family-owned businesses, married couples, single individuals, unmarried couples and non-U.S. citizens.
Wiyrick Flores works with individuals, families and closely held and family businesses to develop and implement succession strategies. She provides sophisticated and highly personalized estate plans and is also experienced in estate, probate and trust administration and assists both fiduciaries and beneficiaries. She helps her business clients with business formations, developing governance structures, reorganizations and dissolutions and mergers and acquisitions to achieve beneficial tax results. Wiyrick Flores is also a frequent speaker on family business and estate- and tax-planning topics, and she is listed in Best Lawyers in America.