The international law firm Withers, which is known as Withers Bergman in the US, has named trusts and estates attorney Louis Mezzullo as a consulting partner.

The international law firm Withers, which is known as
Withers Bergman in the US,
has named trusts and estates attorney Louis Mezzullo as a consulting partner.

Mezzullo, a US-based estate planning and business succession
planning attorney, has written extensively on taxation, estate and business
succession planning, and employee benefits issues.

Based in Rancho Santa Fe, CA, Mezzullo
will advise Withers' national and international clients as well as help
expand the firm’s service to clients in California.

Mezzullo is the immediate past president of the American
College of Trust and Estate Counsel, where he has also served as chair of the
business planning, employee benefits in estate planning and elder law committees,
and will chair the organization’s nominating committee this year.

He is also a former chair of the American
College of Tax Counsel; current chair
of the chapter 14 subcommittee of the estate and gift taxes committee of the American
Bar Association section of taxation; former vice-chair of publications of the ABA section of taxation; and past chair of the ABA section of real
property, trust and estate law.