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Irving Sitnick
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  • Moses & Singer LLP
  • The Chrysler Building
  • 405 Lexington Avenue
  • New York City
  • New York 10174-1299
  • USA
United States of America, New York, New York City
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irving Sitnick is a partner at New York City law firm Moses & Singer LLP. His areas of practice include Trusts and Estates and Wealth Preservation, Income Tax and Legal Ethics & Law Firm Practice.

Main Areas of Practice

  • Estate planning, trusts and probate
  • Offshore companies, trusts and structures
  • Taxation

My Practice Groups

Overview

Irving Sitnick has been a Moses & Singer partner since 1980. He practices in the areas of trusts and estates and taxation, providing sophisticated tax advice to individual clients and their enterprises.

Representative recent transactions in which he has counseled clients include the sale of a family business in a leveraged buyout, the liquidation of a client's interest in a public corporation through a tax-free merger, the intergenerational transfer of assets using family limited partnerships, and the use of trust structures to reduce estate and gift taxes and to shift the incidence of income taxes while protecting family assets.

Mr. Sitnick also represents individual and corporate fiduciaries as Executors and Trustees and advises not-for-profit organizations and their leadership in complying with applicable fiduciary rules.

Mr. Sitnick is active in charitable affairs as a Director of the Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, as a Member of the Board of Trustees of The Educational Alliance and The Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center and as a Director of the VZV Research Foundation, Inc. In addition, he was honored with a listing in Law & Politics’ New York Super Lawyers® for the past four years.

Professional Memberships

  • New York State Bar Association , -
  • The Association of the Bar of the City of New York , -
  • American Bar Association , -

Publications & Presentations

  • • "Federal Estate Tax Repealed", Moses & Singer Client Alert, 01/2010
  • "Tax Incentives for Businesses", Moses & Singer Client Alert, 05/2010
  • "Wealth Preservation Advisor: An Estate Planning Update" , Moses & Singer Newsletter, 10/2010
  • "Act Before December 31 to Save Future Generation-Skipping Transfer Taxes" , Moses & Singer Client Alert, 12/2010
  • "Estate Planning Checklist", Moses & Singer Update, 04/2012

Colleges Attended

  • New York University School of Law, LL.M., Taxation ,
  • Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude ,
  • Brooklyn College, B.A. ,

Languages Spoken

  • English
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