Katarinna McBride
Partner

Katarinna McBride concentrates her practice in the areas of estate planning, estate and trust administration, and business transactions.  Ms. McBride focuses on designing estate plans to meet the diverse family and financial needs of her clients. Ms. McBride also advises business owners and individuals on the creation and administration of private foundations and charitable trusts. Focusing on wealth preservation, Ms. McBride regularly prepares prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.

Ms. McBride’s business transactional practice includes counseling individuals as well as families with closely-held corporations on issues ranging from tax-savvy methods of transferring stock to subsequent generations to defining the obligations of family business owners.  Ms. McBride serves as General Counsel to several corporations and regularly prepares shareholder and partnership agreements, employment agreements and other corporate documentation.

Education:
J.D., University of Dayton School of Law, 1998, cum laude
M.B.A., University of Dayton School of Business, 1998, summa cum laude
B.A., Wilkes University (Bucknell), 1994, summa cum laude

Court Admissions:
Illinois, 2005
District of Columbia, 2002
North Carolina, 2000

Professional Activities:
Co-Editor, Illinois State Bar Association Trusts & Estates Newsletter
Appointed, Illinois State Bar Association Trusts & Estates Committee
Member, Chicago Estate Planning Council
Member, Chicago Bar Association Trust, Federal Tax, and Probate Committees
Member, DC Bar Association and Illinois State Bar Association

Publications and Presentations:
Featured guest, Laying Down the Law, television program
Featured guest, Money Talk, radio show
Speaker, UBS, Maintaining Control in Asset Protection
Speaker, McAndrews, Held, & Malloy Ltd., Estate Planning Basics & Beyond
Author, Due for a Raise; The Small Estate Affidavit, ISBA Trust & Estates
Author, Proposed Regulations to Elect Out of Deemed Allocations, ISBA Trust & Estates