Scott Sambur is Counsel to the firm’s Trusts & Estates Practice Group. Scott represents fiduciaries and individuals with substantial net worth throughout the full range of estate and transfer-tax planning and administration, focusing on the transfer of assets to beneficiaries at the lowest tax cost, achieving overall family and charitable objectives while maintaining family harmony. He advises clients on tax-effective strategies to shift both future wealth and existing wealth, using sophisticated trust planning, life insurance, and family investment vehicles.
Scott advises clients on techniques for charitable giving, including the establishment and administration of charitable foundations, while helping clients to navigate the complicated rules governing the directors and officers of private foundations. He has worked with numerous clients to set up charitable split-interest trusts, helping clients give large sums to worthy causes while at the same time transferring considerable wealth to members of their families on a tax-advantaged basis.
Scott is experienced with the complicated laws governing non-resident aliens who own assets in the United States or have U.S. family members, as well as U.S. citizens owning foreign assets, holding dual citizenship, residing abroad or considering expatriation. He has advised multiple clients on complex offshore business succession and estate planning matters, and is well-versed in the many rules governing foreign trusts with U.S. beneficiaries.
Scott received an A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and he served as a law clerk at the United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Nevada.