Ryan M. Jennings is an Associate in the firm’s Trusts & Estates, Estate Administration and Private Wealth and Taxation Groups. Ryan’s practice focuses primarily on structuring and implementing sophisticated estate plans for high net worth individuals and families to transfer and preserve their wealth while minimizing estate, gift, income and GST taxes. Ryan’s work regularly includes drafting wills and trusts which are tailored to meet the client’s needs, and facilitating the efficient transfer of assets to successive generations of their family. Ryan also creates family companies, including private trust companies, to help preserve family wealth and help realize the client’s succession plan.

Additionally, Ryan’s practice includes estate and administration, including probate and administration proceedings, preparation and filing of estate tax returns, and settling estates through informal or formal accountings. Ryan counsels trustees in their administration of trusts, including amending and decanting of existing irrevocable trusts.

Ryan earned his J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law, where he served as a senior staff member of the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review. He received his Bachelor of Science in economic policy analysis from Binghamton University. He is a member of the Trusts and Estate Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and the Surrogate’s Court Estates and Trusts Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association. Ryan was selected as a Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2024.

Ryan lives on Long Island with his wife Katie, a high school science teacher, their daughters, Ella and Maeve, and their black lab Cooper.