Max P. Biedermann focuses his practice on domestic and international tax and estate planning. He has broad experience advising fiduciaries on the administration of trusts and estates – particularly with international complexities – counseling families on business succession, implementing succession plans, and assisting global clients with inbound and outbound planning and trust structuring.

Max works closely with a wide range of clients, including multigenerational families, family offices, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, investments bankers, private equity and hedge fund managers, and philanthropists, helping them identify their objectives and develop creative, pragmatic solutions tailored to their goals.

He regularly advises clients on estate, gift, generation-skipping transfer, and income tax issues, as well as trust and estate administration, wealth transfer strategies, and charitable planning.

Max currently serves as the Executive Editor of the International Estate Planning Treatise published by LexisNexis.

• Advising a senior family member on the transfer of a significant stake in interest in a family business to the next generation
• Advising US and non-US executors and trustees as they navigate sensitive family, financial, and tax issues relating to the administration of estates and trusts
• Representing family members and professionals at multi-generational family offices on estate planning, trust administration, and reporting issues
• Assisting individuals with their complex multi-national tax issues relating to trusts where beneficiaries reside in multiple countries

Education
New York University School of Law, LLM
University of North Carolina School of Law, JD, with honors
Pepperdine University, BS, cum laude

Admissions
New York

Languages
English