Sessions
Naked Options and Other Exotic Wealth Transfers
9:30 AM - 10:20 AM Wed
SLATs: The Non-Marital Trust for Spouses
11:25 AM - 12:15 PM Wed
David A. Handler heads the Trusts and Estates Practice Group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. David is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), and a member of the NAEPC Estate Planning Hall of Fame as an Accredited Estate Planner (Distinguished), the Chicago Estate Planning Council, and the professional advisory committees of several non-profit organizations.
He is the author of numerous articles in estate planning and taxation journals and writes the monthly “tax update” column for Trusts & Estates Magazine. He is ranked in “Band 1” by Chambers USA in the Wealth Management category, is listed in The Best Lawyers in America©, (Trusts and Estates) and its 2015 and 2019 Trusts and Estates “Chicago Lawyer of the Year”. David is a co-author of an e-book on estate planning, The Complete Estate Planning Sourcebook (published by Wolters Kluwer).
He is regularly interviewed for trade and news periodicals and is a frequent lecturer at professional education seminars. David is a graduate of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and received a B.S. Degree in Finance with highest honors from the University of Illinois Gies College of Business.