Kurt Somerville
Partner at Hemenway & Barnes LLP
- Role
- Partner and Trustee at Hemenway & Barnes LLP
- Location
- Boston, MA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kurt Somerville
I advise families and individuals in the areas of wealth management, estate, financial, and tax planning, and probate matters. I have an active practice serving as a professional fiduciary. I am a Partner at Hemenway & Barnes LLP and also a Managing Director and the Senior Trust Officer of the firm\'s New Hampshire affiliate, Hemenway Trust Company LLC. As a lawyer and trustee, I advise high net worth clients on a variety of issues and concerns related to preserving, enhancing, and transferring family wealth.
Experience
Partner and Trustee
Jan 1983 — Present
Representative ExperienceCo-Trustee of Jane\'s Trust, a leading charitable trust in New England, and other charitable trusts and foundations Co-Trustee of several private family trust complexes, with responsibility for preserving, enhancing and managing wealth for multiple generations of beneficiaries Executor and counsel for decedents\' estates of varying sizes and degrees of complexity Planning for the ownership, management and succession of family vacation properties, including preparation of various trusts, family limited partnerships and limited liability companies, qualified personal residence trusts (QPRT\'s), and conservation easements Administrator of an association of landowners with coastal properties, including common green space, roads and docks Co-Trustee of a trust owning islands and an Adirondack camp in upstate New York Counsel for numerous family groups, with responsibility for creating and managing comprehensive estate plans for multiple generations Representation of estate planning clients with unusual assets, including closely held business, foreign real estate, and general partner interests in venture capital and private equity partnerships
Education
Boston College Law School
JD
1980 — 1983
Dartmouth College
BA, Religion
1975 — 1979
Skills
- Trusts
- Private Equity
- Planned Giving
- Wealth
- Estate Tax Planning
- Estate Planning
- Charitable Trusts
- Wills
- Wealth Management
- High Net Worth Individuals
- Charities
- Real Estate
- Probate
- Estate Law
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