Year Joined Organization: 2005

Lawyer Overview

Brad Bedingfield is a senior associate in the Private Client Practice Group. He joined the firm in 2005.

Practice

Mr. Bedingfield provides a broad range of services to individual clients and their families including preparation of wills, trusts and other estate planning documents; advice regarding family investment vehicles, such as Family Limited Partnerships (FLPs) and Family Limited Liability Companies (FLLCs); and development and implementation of strategies for lifetime asset transfers designed to minimize transfer taxes, such as Grantor Retained Annuity Trusts (GRATs), charitable trusts, and sales to irrevocable grantor trusts. Mr. Bedingfield represents company founders, venture capitalists and other entrepreneurs in different stages of development, and advises them about estate planning strategies. His representation of clients also includes planning for and implementing US and foreign ownership and management structures.

Mr. Bedingfield also works closely with not-for-profit organizations in every stage of development. He has assisted both individuals and corporate entities in establishing charitable foundations, preparing and updating not-for-profit corporate documents and governance policies, prosecuting cy pres and deviation proceedings, and effecting tax efficient terminations of charitable entities.

While in law school, Mr. Bedingfield served as an intern to The Honorable Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York.

Prior to his legal studies, Mr. Bedingfield was a lecturer in English Language and Literature at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Rikkyo University (Tokyo), Oxford University and the University of Connecticut. He also worked as a freelance editor for the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Areas of Practice

• Private Client
• Corporate and Transactional

Bar Admissions

• Massachusetts

Education

• Columbia Law School, 2005
  JD
• Oxford University, 2000
  DPhil, English Language and Literature
• Oxford University, 1996
  MSt, Research Methods in English
• University of Georgia, 1995
  MA, English Literature
• University of Georgia, 1993
  BA, Drama and English
  Honors: cum laude

Published Works

• 10 Estate Planning Tips For Troubled Times, 2009
• Stemming the 'Assault' on Privileges, 2006

Address

60 State Street
Boston, MA 02109

Phones

+1 617 526 6604 (Business Phone)

Faxes

+1 617 526 5000 (Business Fax)

Emails

Contact Us (Business Email)

Websites

http://www.wilmerhale.com