Ellery Sever is an associate in Pillsbury’s London office, advising ultra-high-net-worth clients on trusts, estates, international tax, succession and planning matters.

Ellery has experience supporting trust and estate planning as well as international tax matters, including tax and trust structuring, private trust companies, pre-immigration and pre-expatriation planning, assessment of U.S. federal tax reporting obligations, business succession and family wealth planning, along with a range of other private client matters. Ellery advises ultra-high-net-worth individuals, families and trustees and supports them in their interactions with the United States.

Ellery is admitted in California.

Representative Experience

  • Advises international families and family offices on trusts, fiduciary arrangements, wealth succession planning and governance structures that support the preservation and transfer of wealth across generations.
  • Counsels globally mobile families and entrepreneurs on pre-immigration planning and the tax-efficient structuring of personal, family office and investment holdings in the United States.
  • Works closely with advisers and fiduciaries across multiple jurisdictions to design and implement integrated solutions for complex cross-border family and investment structures involving the United States.

Education

  • J.D./LL.M., Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, 2020

    B.A., University of St. Andrews, 2017

Admissions

  • California