Chris Ryan

Chris Ryan is a is a Senior Manager in the firm’s Tax Department. With nearly 9 years of public accounting experience, he is focused on gift, trust, estate planning, and comprehensive income tax planning for high-net-worth individuals as well as closely held business owners. He also handles fiduciary accountings for trusts and estates.

Chris provides a wide range of services to help clients minimize estate and gift tax exposure, including reviewing estate plans and legal documents. He has deep expertise in complex estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax issues and is well versed in various estate planning strategies such as grantor retained annuity trusts, sales to defective grantor trusts, life insurance trusts, qualified domestic trusts, spousal lifetime access trusts, charitable trusts, and annual gifting strategies, including Crummey trusts for minors. He also regularly interacts with clients, attorneys, financial advisors, and IRS representatives.