In light of the recent Supreme Court case of Connelly v. Internal Revenue Service, owners of closely held businesses may need to reconsider their plan to buy out a deceased owner’s stake in a business with life insurance proceeds.

Recent news stories have been published about two bills introduced in the Senate that, if enacted, could have a significant impact on many estate plans.

With massive changes happening on a day-to-day and even hour-by-hour basis around the globe, no doubt uppermost in your mind are the health and safety of you and your loved ones.

In the past, estate planners routinely advised clients to make their IRA or other retirement plan benefits payable to a designated beneficiary or to a see-through (conduit) trust, where the beneficiary or trust could withdraw benefits gradually by taking distributions over his or her life ...

Many clients have pets. How many practitioners, however, routinely ask clients if they would like to include provisions for their pets in their estate planning documents? Some estate planners may laugh at this concept, but Americans are serious about their pets, and the pet industry itself is a ...

Manatt and professionals Jill Dodd, Veronica Cerruti and Vivian Redsar were ranked by Chambers USA in its 2024 High Net Worth Rankings Guide.

Manatt has once again been ranked among the nation’s leading law firms in Chambers’ 2024 USA Guide across 18 categories with 42 individual rankings.

Manatt received a Band 2 ranking from Chambers USA in its 2023 High Net Worth Rankings Guide in the Private Wealth Law category in Northern California.

Manatt represented the founding family of the award-winning Seven Stones Winery in its $34 million sale to a multinational corporation with a significant U.S. presence.