Cryptocurrency Basics: Estate Planning, Tax, and Fiduciary Considerations

Karin Prangley is a Senior Wealth Planner in the Chicago Private Banking office of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. She has spent her entire career advising successful individuals and business owners on the preservation of wealth. Karin’s particular expertise ranges from saving income and estate taxes on the sale of a business, to assisting clients with the achievement of their philanthropic goals, to preparing the next generation to inherit liquid wealth or a going-concern family business, to coordinating the legal and tax structure of her clients’ assets.

Prior to joining the firm in 2014, Karin was a Partner in private legal practice at the estate planning and administration group of Krasnow Saunders LLP and an Associate in the trusts and estates groups of Arnold & Porter LLP and Winston & Strawn LLP.

Karin is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, an elite trusts and estates organization where admission is based on professional reputation, expertise in tax law and contribution to the legal field. She received a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Mount St. Mary’s University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and was published in the Virginia Tax Review.