15 Jul 2026
Adam von Poblitz Joins Akerman as Partner to Chair Family Office Practice
"Adam von Poblitz joins Akerman as partner to chair its Family Office Practice, focusing on domestic and international wealth planning, estate and tax, cross-border planning and art-collection advisory."
Based in Miami, von Poblitz is a nationally recognized authority on domestic and international wealth planning and brings nearly three decades of experience counseling ultra-high-net-worth individuals, multigenerational families, private trust companies, and charitable organizations on complex legal, tax, governance, and succession issues. He joins Akerman as partner and chair of the Family Office Practice after a nearly two-decade tenure at Citi Private Bank, where he culminated his service as Global Head of Wealth Advisory for the Global Family Office Group. At Citi he also served as Global Head of Cross-Border Wealth Planning, Head of Citi Trust North America, and Head of Estate Planning, and was named to Citi's Chairman's Council as both a franchise leader and a product leader.
Von Poblitz’s practice focuses on estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax planning; income tax planning; cross-border and international estate planning for U.S.-connected clients; trust and estate administration; business succession planning; premarital planning; and philanthropic and charitable planning. He is also a trusted advisor on planning, succession, and tax matters for significant art collections, drawing on formal training in fine and decorative arts and extensive trusts and estates experience. Before moving in-house, he practiced trusts and estates law at prominent New York law firms, where his work encompassed sophisticated estate planning, estate administration, probate and fiduciary litigation, and art law.