Bill Kambas
William J. Kambas is a partner at Withers Bergman LLP, in the firm’s Greenwich and New Haven offices and is often in its Manhattan office. He serves as Regional Practice Group Leader of the firm’s Personal Income Tax Practice Group and co-chair of its family enterprise interest group. He is a tax lawyer who represents a wide variety of private and public businesses – including family owned, start-up, and multi-million dollar enterprises on purely domestic and multi-state matters as well as inbound and outbound business transactions, cross border investments (whether made directly or through investment funds or joint ventures), and qualification for US tax treaty benefits. A substantial part of Bill’s practice involves work with families and family offices on the centralized control and management of their assets, including commercial and residential real estate investments. Bill has published articles in publications that include Trusts & Estates, Estate Planning Journal, FFI Practitioner, the STEP Journal and various LexisNexis® publications. Bill has also co-authored the chapter “Establishing and Structuring Family Offices” in The Complete Family Office Handbook by Dr. Kirby Rosplock as well as the chapter “Corporation Business Tax” in the 2017 Guidebook to Connecticut Taxes by Ricard D. Pomp. Bill has given presentations for a number of private groups and organizations including leading private banks and the International Fiscal Association (IFA), as well as being a guest lecturer at Yale University, Columbia Business School, the University of Connecticut School of Law, and Fairfield University’s Charles F. Dolan School of Business. Bill is admitted to practice law in Connecticut and New York as well as in front of the U.S. Tax Court. He received a B.A. in American Studies from Skidmore College and received a J.D. (including a Certificate in Taxation) and M.B.A. (concentration in accounting) from the University of Connecticut.