Olivia Carbajal de Garcia

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Olivia Carbajal de Garcia

Olivia is a partner with Ytterberg Deery Knull LLP.  Olivia is fluent in Spanish and English and focuses her practice on estate planning for high-net-worth individuals, as well as tax planning for international clients.  Her bicultural and bilingual background permits her to utilize her expertise to assist clients to develop a highly customized estate plan. 

Olivia advises foreign and domestic clients on U.S. federal income, gift, and estate tax matters associated with their cross-border investments, including U.S. real estate investments and business ventures.  

Olivia also provides counsel on generation-skipping transfer tax planning; sophisticated charitable giving, using life insurance as a planning tool; business succession planning; international wealth transfer; charitable organizations and private foundations.

EDUCATION

  • South Texas College of Law, J.D., 2007
  • University of Houston, B.B.A., 2002

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

  • Ytterberg Deery Knull LLP, 2018-Present
  • Schlanger Silver LLP, 2013-2018
  • Weycer, Kaplan, Pulaski & Zuber, PC, 2008-2013

ADMISSIONS

  • State Bar of Texas, 2008
  • Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation
  • Houston Estate and Financial Forum
  • Houston Bar Association: Probate, Trusts and Estates Section
  • Texas Bar College

OF NOTE

  • Texas Rising Stars by Super Lawyers Magazine, the Thompson Reuters lawyer rating service, 2017-2020
  • Top Attorneys, Texas’ Outstanding Young Lawyers, by Texas Monthly, 2017-2019.
  • Top Attorneys, Texas’ Outstanding Young Women Lawyers, by Texas Monthly, 2018, as published January 2019
  • H Texas Magazine’s Top Lawyers in Houston, 2015-2018