Michael P. Vito Rejoins Lowenstein Sandler as Trusts & Estates Partner in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON D.C. – Lowenstein Sandler has announced that Michael P. Vito has rejoined the firm as partner in the Trusts & Estates group. He will be based in the firm’s Washington D.C. office.
Vito has wide-ranging experience in tax law and high net worth estate planning, estate and trust administration, and philanthropy spanning more than two decades in multiple jurisdictions. He represents individuals with respect to core estate planning, such as wills, living trusts, durable powers of attorney, and health care directives. Vito also employs more sophisticated techniques, including irrevocable life insurance trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, and spousal lifetime access trusts, with a focus on federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes and fiduciary income tax planning.
In addition, he counsels executors, trustees, and beneficiaries with respect to trust and estate administration. Vito advises fiduciaries on the fulfillment of their duties related to managing an estate or trust, including issues such as estate and inheritance tax returns, fiduciary accountings, concentrated position management, prudent investor act delegation, GST grandfathered trust transactions, fiduciary transitions, decanting, distribution, and wind-up strategies. Leveraging this background, he also represents beneficiaries and other stakeholders to ensure the orderly administration and preservation of their respective interests.
Vito earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Tulane University School of Law and his B.A., cum laude, from Tulane University. He is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
