Kevin Matz is a Partner at the law firm of ArentFox Schiff in New York City where he focuses on domestic and international estate and tax planning, estate administration, and related litigation. Kevin counsels clients on wealth transfer planning including with respect to the application of Chapter 14 of the Internal Revenue Code; drafting wills and trusts; gift, estate, income, and generation-skipping transfer tax planning and tax return preparation; charitable gift planning; probate proceedings and estate administration; and associated litigation as well as corporate counseling. Kevin often serves as outside general counsel to his high net worth clients and their family offices, and melds a unique combination of technical and practical excellence with outstanding skills as both a communicator and empathic listener. Kevin has advised clients on entity and succession planning, including the use of family limited partnerships, grantor retained annuity trusts, transfers to irrevocable trusts involving complex valuations, qualified opportunity zone (QOZ) funds, irrevocable life insurance trusts, and the use of charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, and private foundations to further family planning and philanthropic objectives. Kevin is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), for which he currently chairs its Business Planning Committee, and is also a certified public accountant. Kevin is also currently the chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Estate and Gift Taxation Committee, a former co-chair of the Taxation Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Trusts and Estates Law Section, and a former co-chair of each of the Estate Planning and Trust and Estate Administration Committees of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.