Attorneys: Kenneth R. Hillier
Ken Hillier is a partner and co-chair of the firm’s Estate Planning Practice Group and provides individuals, families and institutional trustees with sophisticated counsel regarding all aspects of estate planning.
Ken’s practice focuses on trust formation and trust administration, including preparation of wills, creation of revocable and irrevocable trusts, tax analyses of estate, gift, and generation-skipping trusts, charitable planning, pre-nuptial and post-nuptial property agreements, and probate administration.
In addition to extensive work in all areas of estate planning and trust formation, Ken has significant experience in various business transactions, including entity formation, mergers and acquisition, and tax matters. Ken is able to draw upon this background to be of particular service on issues involving the intersection of estate planning and general business transactions, such as wealth transfer techniques.
Ken graduated from the University of Michigan Law School (cum laude) in 1992 and was a member of the Michigan Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986. He is a member of the California Bar.