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  • Veronica K. Cerruti

    Partner
    Family Wealth Transfer Planning & Trust and Estate Administration
     vcerruti@manatt.com
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    San Francisco
    Direct: 415.291.7426
    General: 415.291.7400
    Fax: 415.291.7474
    Education

    University of California, Hastings College of the Law, J.D., 1994.

     

    University of the Pacific, B.M., with honors, 1987.
    Bar Admissions
    California
    • Profile
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    • Honors & Awards
    • Publications
    • Memberships & Activities
    • Speaking Engagements

    Profile

    Veronica Cerruti’s practice focuses on estate and tax planning, with an emphasis on family wealth transfers for large estates, sophisticated estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax savings techniques, and complex probate and trust administrations. Her practice includes:  preparation of wills, trusts and ancillary documents; business succession planning; generation-skipping and dynasty trust tax planning; estate and trust administration; prenuptial and postnuptial agreements; irrevocable insurance trusts; court proceedings relating to the administration, modification or termination of irrevocable trusts; and trust accounting.

    Representative Matters

    Honors & Awards

    Publications

    Memberships & Activities

    Admitted to practice in California.

    Certified Specialist, Trust and Estate Planning, The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.

    Member, San Francisco Estate Planning Council.

    Member, Bar Association of San Francisco, Trust and Estate Planning section.

    Member, California Bar Association.

    President (2001-2002), San Francisco Bar Association, Barristers Section, Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Section.

    Speaking Engagements

    "Estate Planning for You and Your Pet, Pet Trusts," San Francisco SPCA, San Francisco, CA, October 6, 2012. 

    "Tax Planning for Trusts and Estates, State Death Taxes," National Business Institute, San Francisco, CA, September 19, 2012.

    "Estate Planning for You and Your Pet," San Francisco SPCA, June/October 2011.

    "Trusts," National Business Institute, September 2011.

    "The Probate Process from Start to Finish," National Business Institute, December 2010.

    "'Boning Up' on Pet Trusts," presented on behalf of the Rutter Group, San Francisco, CA, March 16, 2010.

    “Don’t Get Caught in the Doghouse: Effective Estate Planning for Your Client’s Animal Companions” SF Barristers, Estate Planning, Probate & Trust Section, 2008. 

    “Estate Planning 101,” Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, 2008.

    “Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts,” Jewish Community Federation, 2007.

    “Estate Planning for Pets: Providing for Animal Companions After Your Death,” Humane Society, Sonoma County, 2005.

    “Estate Planning for Pets: Providing for Animal Companions After Your Death,” Redwood Empire Estate Planning Council, 2004.

    “Transferring the Family Business,” National Business Institute, 2002.

    “Estate Planning 101,” Steefel, Levitt & Weiss, 2002.