Olivia Carbajal de Garcia
Direct dial: 713-980-7730
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