International law firm Withers with offices in Greenwich announced the recent election of Marissa Dungey, a partner in the firm”™s private client and tax team, as a Fellow of the Board of Regents of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). Dungey”™s practice focuses on transfer tax planning, estate planning and trust structuring for wealthy individuals and their families. She also advises on estate and trust administration matters, including adapting existing trusts to improve their tax efficiency and utility.
The ACTEC Fellow membership is given to lawyers and law professors across the globe who display an outstanding reputation, exceptional skill and substantial contributions to the field of trust and estate law. The membership aims to highlight individuals who improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures and professional responsibility.
With this appointment, Dungey becomes the 11th Withers attorney to be elected as an ACTEC Fellow, one of the largest numbers of ACTEC Fellows from a private client law firm.
Withers has 17 offices worldwide in London, New York, New Haven, Greenwich (Connecticut), San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Rancho Santa Fe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, the British Virgin Islands, Geneva, Milan, Padua and Cambridge with more than 170 partners and 450 attorneys. Its broad-ranging client base, includes multinational corporations, governments, international institutions and individuals and their businesses.
