Herbert Fixler, Board Chair
Mr. Fixler, a trusts and estates attorney in Cozen O’Connor’s Private Client Services Group, is resident in the firm’s midtown New York office. He concentrates his practice in the fields of estate planning and administration, providing services to a wide range of clients including family business owners. Mr. Fixler designs and implements plans for the inter-generational transfer of family wealth—including family business interests—the reduction of gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes, estate liquidity needs, and charitable gifts and bequests. He also supervises the administration of estates including charitable and other trusts.
In the family business arena, Mr. Fixler advises owners of businesses and commercial real estate on ownership structures, owners’ agreements, compensation arrangements and business succession. He is a board member of Attorneys for Family-Held Enterprises, a non-profit organization comprised of attorneys throughout the United States.
Mr. Fixler received a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Villanova University and his J.D. from the Washington College of Law of the American University where he served as Director of the Legal Aid Society. Upon graduation from law school, he served as a VISTA volunteer ad then entered private practice in New York.
Mr. Fixler is also a semi-professional fine art photographer whose work is frequently exhibited and is included in numerous private and corporate collections. He is also a board member of Photography and Imaging, an organization of individuals dedicated to the photographic arts.