Of Counsel to Pierro Law Group

Ian W. MacLean is a private client services attorney who has focused his practice on solving issues for individual, family, and business clients in the areas of estate planning, business succession planning, asset protection, probate, estate and trust administration and litigation, trust management, and in all nature of domestic or business problems and challenges. His clients include individuals, their families and their businesses, entrepreneurs, start-up and established companies, successful executives and professionals in all phases of their careers, retirees, and people from many different walks of life.

Mr. MacLean’s practice encompasses helping individuals and families find the most desirable ways to protect, and pass on their wealth -- financial wealth and other wealth. He counsels individuals and families on philanthropy, forming and managing family limited partnerships LLCs, and corporations, valuation discounting in the sale or transfer of family businesses and other assets, and the use of private annuities, charitable trusts, and family foundations.

Mr. MacLean also specializes in counseling and representing beneficiaries of estates and trusts, resolving disputes between beneficiaries and fiduciaries, advising individuals, banks, and trust companies in their capacities as executors and trustees, and assisting individuals and families with their trust and related relationships. In many instances, Mr. MacLean has resolved disputes between beneficiaries and fiduciaries without litigation.

For five years, Mr. MacLean served as a senior trust officer at two major, national trust companies, where he supervised and managed trust relationships and federal trust banking compliance matters. This experience gives Mr. MacLean an insight and perspective into corporate fiduciaries that most lawyers do not have.

Mr. MacLean earned a J.D. cum laude from New York Law School in 1992, where he was the Executive Articles Editor of the Law Review. In 1997, Mr. MacLean received an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law. He is admitted to practice law in New York State and in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. During his career, Mr. MacLean has published articles and lectured on various aspects of estate planning and trust and estate administration.

Mr. MacLean is the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the Newsletter and Publications Committee of the Trusts and Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and the immediate past chair of the Section's Estate Planning Committee. He is also a past member of the Committee on Trusts, Estates, and Surrogate's Courts and the Committee on Estate and Gift Taxation of the New York City Bar Association. He is also a member of the Estate Planning Councils of New York City, Inc. and of Westchester County, Inc. and a member of the Westchester County Bar Association. In his committee work, Mr. MacLean has been and continues to be intimately involved in efforts to improve the lives of New Yorkers by researching important legal issues and helping to draft and introduce legislation to improve the laws of New York State as they affect the rights of individuals in connection with estates, trusts, asset protection and related taxation.

In his committee work, Mr. MacLean has been and continues to be intimately involved in efforts to improve the lives of New Yorkers by researching important legal issues and helping to draft and introduce legislation to improve the laws of New York State as they affect the rights of individuals in connection with estates, trusts, and related taxation.

ianwmaclean@maclean-law.com