David S. Kovsky

David S. Kovsky is Vice Chair of the firm's Private Client Services Practice Group. Mr. Kovsky practices in the area of trusts and estates law, advising individuals and families on a full spectrum of complex estate planning matters, including wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, closely held businesses (limited liability companies, limited partnerships and business succession planning), tax-exempt organizations, estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax planning, and multi-generational wealth transfer planning.  Mr. Kovsky also advises individuals and corporate fiduciaries with respect to complex estate and trust administration matters.

Mr. Kovsky's clients are business owners, executives and professionals in a broad array of private and public companies. He has experience representing clients that have built significant family wealth in technology, life sciences, medical devices, real estate, manufacturing, private equity and hedge funds. He routinely advises clients with respect to pre-transaction gift and estate tax planning (including pre- and post-IPO planning), qualified small business stock planning, carried interest planning and the unique estate planning issues for Section 16 insiders.

Through the representation of multiple generations, Mr. Kovsky takes a long view of wealth preservation and wealth transfer planning that incorporates each family's core set of values and helps them achieve their goals in an understandable and tax efficient manner.

Mr. Kovsky is a graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law (LL.M., 2006), Tulane Law School (J.D., 2005) and the University of Michigan (B.A., 2002).