Larkin, Brian K.

Abby Wool Landon is a member in the Portland office of Williams Kastner. She is an estate planning, wills and trusts, tax, business succession and probate attorney with extensive experience advising family businesses in various capacities. Owner of her own law firm for ten years, business owner and member of several family partnerships, she brings hands-on business experience to her clients. Ms. Landon helps her clients with wills and trusts, complex business transactions, business succession and estate plans. If required, she assists them in navigating the probate process, and probate, wills and trust disputes, where it becomes necessary.

Ms. Landon is experienced in multiple-generation trust and estate planning, including business succession elements and qualified retirement plan analysis. She routinely handles matters pertaining to marital trust planning for clients with step-family issues, including marital conduit trust applications for qualified retirement plans. She is experienced in domicile tax analysis, grantor trusts, and trust administration for high net worth families and charitable trust planning and administration. Ms. Landon spent two years as corporate counsel for a startup company, where she managed in-house shareholder relations, M&A transactions, debt and equity funding negotiations, contract negotiations, business succession planning and general corporate work.

Within the community, Ms. Landon continues to serve as a board member for a green, sustainable business, Better World Club. Ms. Landon has presented at CLE seminars throughout the state on behalf of the Oregon Community Foundation (OCF), speaking on asset protection and estate planning for families in conflict. She has extensive courtroom experience, including testifying as an expert witness. Ms. Landon is a dynamic speaker and involved in community education and teaching to private groups to raise awareness of the importance of wills and trusts, and gift and estate tax planning to maximize family wealth and avoid conflict.