Christiana Lazo is a partner in the Private Client Services Department. Christi’s practice focuses on representing ultra-high net worth individuals, their family offices and closely held businesses in developing and implementing sophisticated domestic and international tax and estate plans.

Christi regularly works with principals of private equity and venture capital funds on their estate planning. She also has significant experience counseling global clients on inbound and outbound planning, particularly advising family members in multiple jurisdictions on wealth transfers and on tax-efficient investment and business ownership structures.

Christi is ranked by Chambers High Net Worth in the Private Wealth Law category, with interviewees noting "She is super knowledgeable and very approachable. She has a very sharp and incisive mind but is also very good with clients.” Christi is also listed in Best Lawyers, Private Client Global Elite Directory and Spear’s Legal and Tax & Offshore. Most recently, she was shortlisted in CityWealth’s 2024 Powerwomen awards.

Christi is an adjunct professor at the New York University School of Law Masters in Taxation program and a frequent speaker and author on estate planning topics.