Stefan C. Nicholas is a Director and chair of Jackson & Campbell’s Estates and Trusts practice group and a member of the Business Law practice group. He has extensive experience in drafting wills, trusts and all ancillary documents in connection with estate and gift tax planning, as well as asset protection planning including both on- and off-shore asset protection trusts and the use of corporate entities. Stefan also has extensive experience with sophisticated wealth transfer techniques such as grantor retained interest trusts, qualified personal residence trusts and defective grantor trusts.
In addition, Stefan specializes in developing exit planning strategies for business owners, and has counseled clients on estate planning, business succession planning and asset protection planning with an emphasis on managing the tax impact that liquidity events have on a client’s personal assets. He has guided clients on completing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and has negotiated partnership, management, shareholder, employment and confidentiality agreements on behalf of numerous clients.
Stefan earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a member of the Moore Society of International Law and the Black Law Students Association. Before that, Stefan earned his Master in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia Wilson School of Foreign Affairs. He received a B.A. in International Relations from Georgetown University, which he followed with academic stints in Prague in the Czech Republic and Berlin, Germany, where he earned a Certificate of German Language and Culture from the Goethe Institute.
Stefan is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and the State of New York.
Stefan is a member of the American Bar Association and the Estates and Trusts Bar of the District of Columbia. He is a member of the Wealth Counsel and the Business Enterprise Institute, and is currently Treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors for DC Vote and the Chairman of the Board of the Hilda & Charles Mason Charitable Foundation. Stefan also serves on the Advisory Board for Eagle Bank and the George Washington Cancer Institute, as well as the Alumni Board for Georgetown Day School.
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