Partner in Davidson, Dawson & Clark LLP, in New Canaan, CT
Matthew A. Bovino, a partner in the firm’s New Canaan office since 2003, is admitted to practice in Connecticut and Massachusetts. He received his B.A. degree in Communications, magna cum laude, from Fordham University in 1984, and his J.D. degree from the New York University School of Law in 1987. Mr. Bovino lectures widely on estate planning and related topics, both to the general public and to tax and financial planning professionals, and he is a past president of the Estate Planning Council of Lower Fairfield County. While he was initially drawn to trusts and estates by the intellectual challenge of tax law, Mr. Bovino finds counseling clients on how best to protect their families the most rewarding aspect of his practice.

Wiggin and Dana LLP, in Greenwich, CT
Mr. Clear is the chair of the firm’s Private Client Services Department. Mr. Clear focuses his practice on estate planning, estate and trust administration, probate litigation and business succession planning. Mr. Clear guides fiduciaries and beneficiaries through estate settlement and trust administration matters. He also assists business owners with succession planning by presenting to family groups on business/estate planning matters and by preparing business entities, shareholders’ agreements, buy-sell agreements, and grantor-retained annuities and trusts. He also facilitates the sales/purchases of business assets. Mr. Clear is a co-chair of the Probate and Estates Section of the Fairfield County Bar Association and the president of the Fairfield County Chapter of the Exit Planning Exchange (CT XPX). He received his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from the Quinnipiac University School of Law, where he served as the Executive Managing Editor of the Quinnipiac Probate Law Journal.
 

Partner, Wiggin and Dana LLP, in Greenwich, CT
For three decades, Mr. Daniels has dedicated himself to counseling families in preserving wealth from generation to generation. His clients include affluent individuals, family offices, business owners, C-suite executives and private equity and hedge fund founders. He assists them in estate and business planning, trust and estate administration, probate litigation, and more. Mr. Daniels has been named by Worth magazine as one of the top 100 trust lawyers in the United States. He is one of six trust and estate lawyers in Connecticut ranked in Band 1 by the international ranking service Chambers and Partners. Mr. Daniels is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America. Best Lawyers has also named him its Lawyer of the Year for the Stamford area in the category of trusts and estates. He is especially interested in family businesses, having grown up in one. Mr. Daniels is a prolific author on trust and estate strategies and has served as special counsel in large litigations where divorce claims threaten trusts. He received his J.D. degree cum laude from Harvard Law School and his A.B. degree summa cum laude from Dartmouth.