The team · Partners & principals

Fourteen advisors. Two-hundred-thirty households.

Senior partners average 22 years of high-net-worth practice. We deliberately stay small. Each new household displaces an old one when the math shows we cannot serve them at the level we have committed to.

14
Total advisors
5
Senior partners
22yrs
Avg partner tenure
230
Households served
16:1
Households per advisor
Senior partners

Five partners. Each runs a pillar.

The senior partners share P&L responsibility and lead the firm’s pillar groups. Each partner sees no more than 25 households personally; the structure is designed to make hand-offs the exception, not the rule.

P/01

Helena Castellano

Managing Partner · Strategic Planning

Twenty-six years of HNW practice; previously partner-in-charge of the personal financial services group at a Big Four. Founded the firm in 2014 with three partners; manages 23 households personally.

CPACFPPFSJD
PracticePillar I · Planning
Households23
P/02

Marcus Aldridge

Partner · Entity Structuring

Twenty-one years specializing in passthrough-entity tax. Former IRS Chief Counsel attorney before joining private practice in 2007. Authored two NYU Tax Institute papers on holdco structures.

JDLLM TaxCPA
PracticePillar II · Structuring
Households19
P/03

Priya Reddy

Partner · Wealth Transfer

Trust and estate strategy for multi-generational families. Eighteen years at a Park Avenue trusts & estates firm before joining in 2019. Drafted SLAT, GRAT, and IDGT structures for clients ranging $30M–$400M.

JDLLM TrustsAEP
PracticePillar III · Transfer
Households21
P/04

Daniel Vasquez

Partner · Business & Founder Tax

Pre-IPO tax strategy and QSBS specialist. Former director of tax at a unicorn that exited in 2018. Has personally signed off on QSBS qualification for 87 founder engagements aggregating $1.2B of qualified gain.

CPAMSTCFA
PracticePillar IV · Business
Households25
P/05

Sophie Berenson

Partner · International & Charitable

Cross-border and charitable structuring. Started career at the IRS Office of Associate Chief Counsel (International) before private practice. Trilingual; serves clients across UK, Singapore, Israel.

JDLLM TaxCFA
PracticePillar V + VI
Households22
D/01

Robert Tomasz

Director of Operations

Operates the firm itself. SOC 2 Type II audit lead, technology stack owner, and CPA bar relations. Twelve years at a private bank’s family-office unit before joining.

CPACISA
PracticeOperations
HouseholdsN/A
Senior associates

Eight associates. Each paired with a partner.

Every senior associate is paired with one of the senior partners and shares responsibility for a defined book. They are visible on every engagement; you will never receive a deliverable from someone you have not met.

Lin Chen
Sr Associate · Planning

11 yrs. Former Big Four senior manager. Models the 7-year projection for the planning pillar.

Aaron Petrov
Sr Associate · Planning

9 yrs. Multi-state nexus and residency specialist; runs the day-counting practice.

Naomi Okafor
Sr Associate · Structuring

10 yrs. Section 199A and passthrough strategist; co-authored 2024 entity-architecture white paper.

Hugo Lindqvist
Sr Associate · Structuring

8 yrs. Holdco design and S-corp basis tracking; recovering Big Four senior tax associate.

Maya Devereaux
Sr Associate · Transfer

9 yrs. SLAT and dynasty trust drafter; bar admitted in NY, FL, and CA.

Joaquin Rivas
Sr Associate · Business

7 yrs. QSBS qualification, R&D credits, and pre-exit modeling.

Hannah Greene
Sr Associate · International

11 yrs. Treaty positioning and FBAR compliance for cross-border clients.

David Park
Sr Associate · Charitable

8 yrs. DAF, CLT, and CRUT structuring; private-foundation administrator for 6 client foundations.

Outside counsel of record

Standing relationships with five firms.

We work alongside — not in place of — trusts & estates attorneys, M&A counsel, and audit-defense specialists. The firms below are our standing referral relationships; clients are free to bring their own.

Trusts & Estates
Lerner Sutton Bell, NY

Will + trust drafting, estate-tax-return prep, post-mortem administration.

M&A Counsel
Hartwell Drake LLP, SF / NY

Pre-exit deal structuring, QSBS counsel-of-record opinions for founder clients.

Audit Defense
Stein & Garcia, DC

Former IRS Office of Chief Counsel partners; lead defense on exam & appeals.

Real Estate Tax
Mendelson Park, NY

1031, opportunity zones, syndication tax counsel, and partnership representations.

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