Bio
                            
                                                        
                                Elliot I. Kramer is a Of Counsel in Riker Danzig’s Tax, Estate Planning & Administration, and Corporate groups.  Elliot represents clients in the full range of estate planning and tax counseling issues, including transfer tax reduction techniques and multi-generational planning issues.  He is well-versed in family limited partnerships, grantor retained annuity trusts and income trusts, grantor retained unitrusts, charitable lead trusts and charitable remainder trusts, as well as the special concerns of private foundations.
Elliot provides day-to-day general counseling to his business clients, advising on choice of entity, contract negotiation and general business advice.
He was co-author of “New Proposed Regulations Under Section 1374 Would Prevent Use of Installment Sales to Avoid the Built-In-Gains Tax,” Journal of S Corporation Taxation (Winter, 1994).
Elliot is a member of the Sections on Taxation of the New Jersey Bar Association, the Essex County Bar Association and American Bar Association.
                             
                                                     
                        
                        
                                                
                            
                                
Bar Admissions
                            
                                                            New Jersey
                                                            New York
                                                            United States District Court, District of New Jersey
                                                            United States Court of Federal Claims
                                                            New Jersey Supreme Court
                                                     
                        
                                                
                            
                                
Education
                            
                                                            New York University, LL.M., 1983
                                                            University of Pennsylvania, J.D., 1976
                                                            Rutgers College, B.A., 1973
                                                     
                        
                        
                        
                                                
                            
                                
Rankings & Recognitions
                            
                            Elliot has been included in The Best Lawyers in America®, a peer review of U.S. lawyers, in the Trusts and Estates and Tax Law fields for 2024 and 2025.
See Awards and Honors Methodology.
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