Porter Wright welcomes new partner to the Pittsburgh market
Porter Wright is proud to announce that Ben Wischnowski has joined the firm’s Pittsburgh office as a partner in the Tax, Estate Planning & Personal Wealth Group.
Wischnowski focuses his practice on sophisticated estate planning and wealth transfer strategies for high-net-worth individuals and families. He regularly advises clients on intergenerational wealth transfers, business succession planning and federal estate tax matters, developing customized strategies to preserve and efficiently transfer wealth. His experience includes designing and implementing advanced trust structures such as spousal lifetime access trusts, grantor-retained annuity trusts and life insurance trusts, as well as utilizing complex gifting techniques and recapitalizations to meet clients’ long-term objectives.
In addition to his trusts and estates work, Wischnowski works closely with business owners on a range of transactional and planning matters, including real estate transfers, entity selection, and the negotiation and drafting of commercial leases, employment agreements and construction-related contracts.
“We are thrilled to welcome Ben to our Pittsburgh office,” said Kristen Delā€ÆSole, partner-in-charge of the firm’s Pittsburgh market. “His deep experience in estate planning and business succession, combined with his practical approach to advising closely held businesses and high-net-worth clients, makes him a strong addition to our team and a valuable resource for our clients.”
Wischnowski earned his J.D., with distinction, from the University of Iowa College of Law, where he served as a Note & Comment Editor for the Iowa Law Review. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh.
