Leigh-Alexandra Basha focuses her practice on domestic and international estate and tax planning. She counsels an affluent international client base on a wide range of sophisticated matters, including estate and trust administration, family wealth preservation, tax compliance, as well as business succession, expatriation and pre-immigration planning. Leigh is head of the Firm’s Washington, DC, Private Client Practice Group.
Leigh was an adjunct professor of wills, trusts and estates at American University Washington College of Law. She lectures and has written extensively about international estate and tax planning issues, and is editor of A Guide to International Estate Planning: Drafting, Compliance, and Administration Strategies, Second Edition.
RECOGNITION
· The Best Lawyers in America 2012 to 2018, Tax Law, Trusts and Estates
· Washingtonian Magazine 2017, Top Lawyer 2017
· Chambers Global 2014 to 2017, International Private Client
· Chambers USA 2014 to 2016, Wealth Management: Eastern Region
· Chambers High Net Worth 2016 and 2017, District of Columbia, Private Wealth and USA, Private Wealth: Eastern Region
· Citywealth Leaders List 2017
· The International Who’s Who of Private Client Lawyers 2016
· Tax Law, Trusts & Estates, 2012 to 2015
· Washingtonian Magazine 2015, DC’s Best Lawyers: Trusts and Estates
· Washingtonian Magazine 2014, Top Money Adviser, Estates Attorney
· Who’s Who Legal 100: Private Client 2014
COMMUNITY
· American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, Financial Action Task Force, Delegate
· FATF Task Force, Member
· International Estate Planning Committee, Chair
· International Membership Committee, Chair
· International Bar Association (IBA), council member of the Legal Practice Division, and past chair of the
· Individual Tax and Private Client Committee
· Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), Program Chair of the USA branch and past-chair of the Mid-Atlantic branch
CREDENTIALS
Education
· Georgetown University Law Center, LLM, 1989
· American University - Washington College of Law, JD, 1985
· Georgetown University, AB, 1982
Admissions
· District of Columbia
· Maryland
· Virginia
· Courts / Agencies
· US Supreme Court
· US Tax Court
Languages
· English
· French