Withers LLP

Trust, Estates and Charitable Planning

Partner

Alistair "Sandy" Christopher focuses his practice on international and domestic tax and estate planning. Sandy advises Non-U.S. and U.S. families on tax planning and minimization strategies, including cross-border and pre-immigration issues. Sandy's practice utilizes a variety of sophisticated techniques, such as trust decanting, foreign grantor trusts, dynasty trusts and sales to intentionally defective grantor trusts, in order to create tax-efficient, multi-generational wealth transfer structures.

Sandy has written and presented on a variety of tax and estate planning topics.

New York State Bar Association

Connecticut Bar Association

American Bar Association

Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

Boston College Law School, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, J.D.

Yale University, distinction, B.A.