Austin Bramwell

Partner at Milbank LLP

Speaker

Mr. Bramwell is a partner of Milbank LLP in New York and the co-Practice Group Leader of their Trusts & Estates Group, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, where he teaches income taxation of trusts and estates. He is the author of numerous articles in the tax and estate planning area and a frequent lecturer on estate planning topics, including for the American Bar Association, the American Law Institute, the New York City Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Duke University Estate Planning Conference, the Notre Dame Tax and Estate and Planning Institute, the University of Miami Heckerling Institute, and the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel. In 2017 and 2018, he served in the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Tax Policy, where he helped craft the landmark Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, and worked on important tax regulatory projects within the Treasury Department. Mr. Bramwell serves as co-chair, estates and trusts, of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, where he serves on the Washington Affairs Committee, and an Academician of The International Academy of Estates and Trusts Law.

Mr. Bramwell earned his J.D. cum laude from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts degree, from Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut. He clerked for the Hon. Timothy M. Tymkovich, past Chief Judge of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.