Beth D. Tractenberg

Qualifications and Career Profile

Beth D. Tractenberg concentrates her practice in the field of estate planning, with a specialty in international estate planning, estate administration, prenuptial agreements and not-for-profit organizations. She advises high net worth individuals and family enterprises on all aspects of estate planning and cross-border and international tax planning, as well as on personal issues such as prenuptial agreements. She represents a number of wealthy individuals and families with significant real estate and business holdings in the United States and abroad. Drawing on her tax and trusts and estates experience, Beth serves as family advisor on numerous business, management and related personal issues for her clients.

Lectures and Articles

Ms. Tractenberg has written and lectured extensively to firms as to developments in the law and unique estate planning techniques. Ms. Tractenberg’s lectures have included presentations to the Practising Law Institute, the Trusts and Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, National Financial Partners and New York Society of Securities Analysts. She is frequently invited to speak before professional groups including accountants, investment advisors and insurance brokers. She has served as an adjunct professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University teaching Tax Exempt Organizations in the Graduate Taxation Program. She is listed as a New York Super Lawyer in New York Super Lawyers — Manhattan Edition (2006-2010).

Associations and Committees

Ms. Tractenberg is active in the exempt organization community. She has created and obtained tax-exempt status for scores of charitable entities and serves as counsel to numerous charitable entities advising on issues including compliance and fund-raising. In addition to serving as a founding director of LOVE, US, and of Dreamgate Children’s Movement, she is a founding member of The Little One Foundation. Ms. Tractenberg is also a board member for both the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and The A. Woodner Fund. Ms. Tractenberg has served as chair of both the Committee on International Estate Planning and the Committee on Charitable Organizations of the Trusts and Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association. She is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel where she is a member of the Charitable, the International Estate Planning, and the Asset Protection Planning Committees. Ms. Tractenberg is also a member of the UK-based Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

Education and Bar Admissions

Ms. Tractenberg earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and her Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. She is admitted to practice in New York.