Member Roster

Biography

Glenn G. Fox is chair of Baker McKenzie's New York Tax Group and is a member of the Firm's Private Capital, Wealth Management, and Tax Practice Groups and of the Firm’s Global Tax Wealth Management Steering Committee. Glenn is a domestic and international tax, estate planning, and tax-exempt (charitable) organizations lawyer with vast experience working with closely held businesses, family offices, and charitable organizations from the US and overseas. Glenn is a member of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law and is ranked Band 2 in Chambers Private Wealth Law.

Practice Focus

Glenn's wealth management practice focuses on the use of sophisticated wills, trusts, closely held entities, tax-exempt (charitable) entities and non-charitable purpose trusts to enable clients to bequeath and gift assets with the imposition of the least amount of transfer and income taxes. He has significant experience in dealing with closely held business interests, retirement assets, foreign assets, foreign trusts and US and international tax exempt organizations. He represents domestic and foreign clients with worldwide assets in succession, estate, trust, tax and tax exempt/not-for-profit organization matters. Glenn's tax exempt/not-for-profit practice includes all elements of establishing and operating US and non-US charitable organizations that do business in the US and abroad.

Representative Legal Matters

• Represents non-US entrepreneurs establishing US business ties with their treaty based US income tax and estate tax planning.
• Represents major publicly traded US multinational fashion company with respect to its corporate philanthropy via various US private charitable foundations.
• Represents European based founders of software and healthcare companies on US pre-immigration personal tax planning and US philanthropic planning via foreign charitable foundations.
• Represents European privately held multinational consumer products company with US charitable foundation operations.
• Represents major publicly traded US company with the establishment of a non-charitable purpose trust structure.
• Represents New Jersey based family owning interests in closely held Asia based multinational company on international tax and estate planning.
• Represents multiple generations of US based family owning multinational manufacturing company on estate and philanthropic planning that includes charitable foundations and social welfare organizations.
• Assists various charitable foundations with international ties for the purpose of establishing public charity branches in the United States.
• Represents royal family from Europe with respect to the restructuring of various US trusts that date back to the 1920s for gift tax planning.
• Advises the heirs of a pharmaceutical manufacturing company in a significant family trust matter.
• Represents family with significant New York real estate holdings on estate and succession planning.
• Represents Florida based family with significant business and real estate holdings in the US and Latin America with trust, succession and charitable planning.
• Advises founder of highly successful New Jersey based telecommunications company on succession and estate planning.
• Guided the formation of a public environmental charity.
• Represented a university involved in a large estate litigation.

Professional Honors

• Ranked Band 2, Chambers Private Wealth Law
• Who's Who Legal, Private Client Global Leader
• New York Super Lawyer, New York Times
• Recommended Lawyer, Legal 500 US
• US News Best Lawyers, Trusts & Estates
• UJA Lawyers Division Trusts & Estates Group 30th Annual Event Honoree, 2021

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Professional Associations and Memberships

• American College of Trust and Estate Counsel - Downstate New York State Chair; past FATF Task Force Co-chair
• Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners – Past Co-chair New York Chapter
• New York State Bar Association International Section - Past Section Chair & House of Delegates Member; International Section Executive Committee Member
• UJA-Federation of New York Trusts and Estates Group – Member
• International Academy of Estate and Trust Law - Member
• New York City Bar Association - Member

Admissions

• District of Columbia~United States (1992)
• New York~United States (1991)
• Connecticut~United States (1991)
• New Jersey~United States (1990)

Education

• New York University (LLM Taxation) (1994)
• Albany Law School (JD, cum laude) (1990)
• Cornell University (BA) (1987)

Publications & Presentations

• Author and Speaker, "Taking Advantage of Benefits Under the OBBBA via Decanting, Modification and/or Termination of Trusts," NYU School of Professional Studies 84th Institute on Federal Taxation, New York, New York, October 2025
• Co-author and Speaker, "In Depth Discussion of Estate Tax Treaties," STEP/NYSBA 20th Annual International Estate Planning Institute, New York, New York, March 2025
• Author and Speaker, "The Corporate Transparency Act – Current Compliance Requirements," NYU School of Professional Studies 83rd Institute on Federal Taxation, New York, New York, November 2024
• Co-author and Speaker, "A Deep Dive into the Corporate Transparency Act and its Impact on Corporate Trustees," Delaware Trust Conference, Wilmington, Delaware, October 2024
• Co-author and Speaker, "The Corporate Transparency Act," ACTEC ALI-CLE Webinar, July 2024 and January 2023
• Co-author and Speaker, "Lawyers as Gatekeepers – Ethical Considerations," STEP/NYSBA 19th Annual International Estate Planning Institute, New York, New York, March 2024