Leigh-Alexandra Basha, a Partner at McDermott Will & Emery in their Washington DC office, focuses her practice on domestic and international tax and estate planning. She counsels an affluent international client base on a wide range of sophisticated matters, including estate and trust administration, family wealth preservation, foreign trust planning, tax compliance, as well as business succession, expatriation, and pre-immigration planning. Leigh is co-head of the Firm’s Washington DC Private Client Practice Group. Leigh was an adjunct professor of wills, trusts, and estates at American University Washington College of Law. She lectures and has written extensively about international tax and estate planning issues, and is editor of A Guide to International Estate Planning: Drafting, Compliance, and Administration Strategies, Second Edition. Leigh is an ACTEC Fellow, a member of STEP and past-chair of the STEP Mid-Atlantic branch.
Judi Galst, a Managing Director Private Clients for Henley & Partners and the Head of their New York office, advises families and their trusted advisors on global opportunities for legal residence and citizenship by investment. Judi’s role includes developing and maintaining relationships with trust and estate attorneys, wealth management firms, family offices, and other intermediaries who advise wealthy and ultra-wealthy families and individuals. She serves as an extension to the advisory services of many trust and estate attorneys in their support of clients who are interested in understanding opportunities for alternative residence and citizenship across the globe. Judi also works directly with prospective family and individual clients, assessing their needs and objectives and recommending appropriate citizenship and residence options.