10100 Santa Monica Boulevard
Suite 2200
Los Angeles, California
90067

310.282.2230

310.919.3890

Ronald C. Pearson
Partner

Ron Pearson focuses his practice on estate planning for high net worth individuals, owners of closely held businesses and in the administration of estates and trusts. His clients include prominent individuals in the entertainment industry and commerce.

Mr. Pearson's areas of practice include sophisticated tax planning techniques relating to high net worth individuals. His estate planning services include living trusts, gift and insurance trusts, continuing trusts for children and other beneficiaries to provide for their care and for management and flexibility relating to discretionary distributions; generation-skipping trusts; grantor-retained annuity trusts; qualified personal residence trusts; family limited partnerships; private foundations; charitable lead trusts; charitable remainder trusts; qualified domestic trusts for noncitizen spouses and special needs trusts.

In addition, Mr. Pearson provides trust and probate administration services that include representation of individuals, banks and trust companies acting in a fiduciary capacity (including as trustees, executors, conservators and guardians); preparation of estate tax returns with analysis of valuation issues; and postmortem tax planning, including use of disclaimers.

Representative Experience

Represents high net worth clients regarding estate plans providing for the transfer of wealth to multiple generations and to provide incentives to future generations to become productive members of society.
Represents decedent's estates and numerous off-shore trusts created for the benefit of beneficiaries located in the US and UK.
Represents creditors and beneficiaries of estates of high profile individuals.
Created grantor retained annuity trusts and sales to defective grantor trusts to shift significant wealth of clients intergenerationally.
Created charitable organizations for multiple clients to provide a family legacy of charitable giving through private foundations.

Publications/Speeches

Commentator, Life-Stage Investing: Turning Real-Estate Malaise into an Estate-Plan Cure, Standard & Poor's MarketScope Advisor (2008)

Affiliations

Member and Former Chair of the Executive Committee, Trust and Estates Section, Los Angeles County Bar Association
Member and Former Chair of the Estate and Gift Tax Committee, State Bar of California

Distinctions

Received highest ranking in "Chambers USA 2011, America's Leading Lawyers for Business," in California Tax: Estate Planning, (also recognized in 2010 edition)
Named in "Southern California Super Lawyers" in Estate Planning and Probate, a Thomson Reuters business (2009-2012)
Certified as a Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization
Highest "AV Preeminent (5 out of 5)" Professional Rating, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory

Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M., 1985

University of San Diego School of Law, J.D., 1984

Pacific Union College, B.S., 1980

California, 1985

U.S. Tax Court, 1985

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