William Lipkind is chair of Wilson Elser’s Tax Planning & Controversies practice and a founding member of Lampf, Lipkind, Prupis & Petigrow. Bill concentrates his practice in the areas of wealth preservation, asset protection, and state and federal income taxation. He is experienced in the laws, regulations and nuances surrounding gift and estate taxation and tax controversies, and he counsels closely held businesses and their owners on optimal tax structures, internal governance, and mergers and acquisitions. Bill is valued for his sensitivity to estate planning issues, counseling corporate entities as well as high-net-worth individuals on asset protection, wealth preservation, asset protection and intergenerational issues. Bill served as law secretary to Justice Nathan Jacobs, Supreme Court of New Jersey.
Bill has contributed, as author or co-author, a number of articles to the authoritative literature in his field: “Attacking Beneficial Interests in Spendthrift Trusts with Ownership Equivalence,” New Jersey Law Journal (February 29, 2016); “Bill Lipkind’s 2016 ING Update,” Leimberg Information Services, Inc., LISI Estate Planner Newsletter #2373 (January 8, 2016); “Income Tax Aspects of Variable Life Insurance Policies,” Journal of Taxation, Estates, Trusts & Gifts (February 2015); “What If Perpetual Trusts Are Unconstitutional?” Leimberg Information Services, Inc., LISI Estate Planner Newsletter #2263 (December 18, 2014); “Fundamentals of DING Type Trusts: No Gift Not a Grantor Trust,” Probate Practice Reporter, Volume 26, Number 4 (April 2014); “PLR 201310002:DING Redux,” Leimberg Information Services, Inc., LISI Estate Planner Newsletter #2076 (March 12, 2013); “Protecting Assets from Creditors,” The CPA Journal (September 1993); “On the Road Offshore: The Struggle Between Protection of Assets and Fraudulent Conveyances,” NJ Lawyer (July/August 1992); “Gallagher Revisited: The Functionally Unrelated Corporate Reorganization,” Villanova Law Review, Volume 12, Issue 3 (January 1968).
