Lindsay A. Rehns is a partner in the Private Client Services Department. Her diverse private client services practice includes estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax planning, probate, estate and trust administration matters and preparing and negotiating prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. Lindsay assists high net worth individuals and families with developing suitable estate plans to maximize and protect the transfer of wealth to future generations. She is able to carefully navigate the often sensitive family dynamics involved in representing individuals and can make complex issues more comprehensible to her clients so they can make informed decisions about their assets.
Lindsay also supports Proskauer’s fiduciary litigators on estate, trust and tax related matters both relating to trial and settlement negotiations. She has extensive experience handling IRS estate and gift tax audits and prepares and reviews gift and estate tax returns.
Lindsay is experienced in implementing advanced estate planning techniques, including:
Drafting wills, trusts and other estate planning documents
Charitable gift planning, including forming foundations and charitable trusts and obtaining IRS tax-exempt status
Life insurance planning
Asset protection planning
Coordinating transfers and estate plans among generations
Estate and trust administration
Preparing and filing estate and gift tax returns
Representing fiduciaries and beneficiaries in the probate and administration process
Post-mortem tax planning
Probate court proceedings
Lindsay has worked both in Proskauer’s Florida and New York offices and frequently travels between offices to best service clients. She is qualified to practice in Florida, New York and Georgia.
First in Class
magna cum laude
summa cum laude
American Bar Association (Tax Section and Young Lawyers Division)
New York State Bar Association
New York City Bar Association (Trusts & Estates Law Section)
Florida Bar Association (Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, and Tax Section Member)
Georgia Bar Association (Young Lawyers Division)
Proskauer's Women's Alliance (Co-chair Nov. 2014 – Jan. 2017, Steering Committee Member)
New York Super Lawyers "Rising Stars" 2017-2018
Florida Super Lawyers "Rising Stars" 2018
“Top 50 Women,” New York Metro Super Lawyers, 2019