John Pelet

John Pelet focuses his practice on estate planning, administration and tax matters. He advises high net worth individuals, families and closely held businesses on gift and estate tax planning, trust administration, wealth transfer strategies and business succession planning.

John’s experience includes drafting trusts, wills and other sophisticated estate planning instruments, implementing tax-efficient lifetime gifting strategies, administering decedents’ estates and advising on complex transactions that preserve generational wealth.

Prior to joining the firm, John served as a lawyer in the Passthroughs, Trusts and Estates division of the Office of Chief Counsel at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), focusing on complex estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax issues. In this role, he contributed to the preparation of influential federal tax materials—including Treasury regulations, Chief Counsel Advice and Tax Forms—and helped identify key tax issues for inclusion in Treasury’s Priority Guidance Plan. He also advised on high-stakes estate and gift tax examination and litigation matters and reviewed private letter ruling requests arising from intricate wealth transfer tax issues.