Laura A. Zwicker

Laura’s practice focuses on advising multinational and domestic families across generations on the tax, trust, and philanthropic issues involved in global and domestic wealth transfer. Laura provides tailored advice on tax residency and pre-immigration and emigration structuring, counsels founders on liquidity event planning, and serves as outside counsel to family offices and fiduciaries on a variety of planning issues, including the implications of family members and beneficiaries becoming, or ceasing to be, U.S. tax residents. Laura partners with leading legal, tax, and family office advisors across Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, to ensure integrated structuring that best achieves clients’ objectives across jurisdictions.

Laura has received many accolades, including being ranked in Chambers and Partners Global High Net Worth Guide (2016–2025) for Private Wealth Law and named to The Hollywood Reporter's Troubleshooters, an elite list of power lawyers. She has also been recognized in the Daily Journal, National Law Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, The Best Lawyers in America^®, and Legal 500.

She frequently provides media commentary and has been featured in The Times of London, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Business Insider, Financial Planning, Wealth Management, Bloomberg Tax, Bloomberg Law Podcast, and Law360.