Gretchen Tomanek Shaffer

Gretchen Tomanek Shaffer focuses her practice on a wide variety of estate planning matters, primarily in the context of estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax, revocable and irrevocable trust planning, estate and trust administration, life insurance planning, charitable planning and intra-family transactions. She works with estates ranging from negligible assets, on a pro bono basis, to estates in excess of $2 billion.

Ms. Shaffer handles planning for clients with closely held businesses, concentrated real estate holdings, concentrated positions of publicly traded stock and ownership of professional sports franchises. She advises affiliates of publicly traded companies on estate and gift tax matters and represents corporate and private fiduciaries in estate and trust administration matters.

Ms. Shaffer works closely with private foundations and advises boards of trustees and boards of directors of charitable organizations on fiduciary duties and liabilities. She has drafted and overseen the operation of multiple charitable grant agreements in excess of $1 billion on behalf of her clients.

Ms. Shaffer is a 2007 magna cum laude graduate of Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, where she was symposium editor of the Villanova Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif, and a magna cum laude graduate of Colgate University. Prior to entering law school, Ms. Shaffer worked as a project manager for Accenture in New York, where she implemented technology solutions for clients in the financial services industry.