Ropes & Gray promotes Geoffrey Mason and Kathleen Saunders Gregor in the Boston office

Ropes & Gray has announced promotions for partners and counsel.

Geoffrey Mason (Boston) has been made a partner.

He advises clients on all aspects of estate planning, including sophisticated gift and estate tax planning and trust administration, and serves as trustee of numerous family trusts. He also advises trust companies and major charitable organizations on charitable giving and charitable trust administration.

Representative experience:

• Represented founder and executive of major technology company in estate, gift and charitable planning matters from early stages of company through IPO.
• Assisted with the development and implementation of plan to transfer ownership of privately-held company to second and subsequent generations over several years.
• Worked with donor to develop a $20 million charitable commitment to a university, including outright gifts, charitable remainder trusts and charitable lead trusts.
• Represents State Street Global Advisors’ Charitable Asset Management Group in connection with their administration of charitable trusts and gift annuity programs.
• Developed and implemented gift program, including taxable gifts and GRATs, for owner of large, privately-held company.

Kat Saunders Gregor (Boston) has been promoted to Counsel. She joined the firm in 2005.

She focuses her practice on tax controversy matters, as well as partnership and international tax issues. She regularly represents clients before the U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the IRS, as well as non-U.S. tax authorities. Ms. Gregor has worked extensively on fund investment and secondary transactions, and she advises private equity and hedge funds clients on a variety of tax issues relating to formation and investment activities.

Kat previously practised as a CPA with the Middle Market Advisory Services group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where she advised venture capital funds and their portfolio companies on tax compliance, planning, and controversy matters.