Litigation - Trusts and Estates Trusts and Estates
Gregory T. Densen
Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2010 Awarded Practice Areas
Biography
Greg Densen is a partner in Taft’s Private Client group. Greg’s expertise is in probate issues and controversies and tax-based estate and business planning and administration. Greg recently assisted a family with the design and implementation of a business and tax-sensitive plan to transfer management and ownership of 50+ operating companies between generations. He has provided counsel to several families with issues of a similar nature. Greg frequently helps families through the estate administration process and has dealt with numerous related federal and state tax issues, mounting successful challenges to determinations of the Internal Revenue Service and the Colorado Department of Revenue. Greg also has practiced extensively before the Denver Probate Court and the probate divisions of several other Colorado District Courts in successful efforts to reform trusts and establish guardianships and conservatorships.
Overview
- The University of Iowa, J.D., graduated 1998
- The University of Iowa, graduated 1998
- Colorado Bar Association Trust and Estate Section, 2012-Present - Executive Council Member
- Byrne Foundation, mentoring program for at-risk high school students, 2001 – 2005 - Mentor
- Colorado Bar Association Trust and Estate Section Statutory Revisions Subcommittee, 2010-2012 - Co-Chairman
- Denver Estate Planning Council and Rocky Mountain Estate Planning Council - Member
- Friends of Arts Street, An arts-based workplace development program for Denver youth, 2003 – 2005 - President
- Rocky Mountain Estate Planning Council, 2007-2011 - Board Member
- Colorado Bar Association Trust and Estate Section, 2012-Present - Executive Council Member
- Byrne Foundation, mentoring program for at-risk high school students, 2001 – 2005 - Mentor
- Colorado Bar Association Trust and Estate Section Statutory Revisions Subcommittee, 2010-2012 - Co-Chairman
- Denver Estate Planning Council and Rocky Mountain Estate Planning Council - Member
- Friends of Arts Street, An arts-based workplace development program for Denver youth, 2003 – 2005 - President
- Rocky Mountain Estate Planning Council, 2007-2011 - Board Member
- The University of Iowa, J.D., graduated 1998
- The University of Iowa, graduated 1998
Client Testimonials
Awards & Focus
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
- Litigation - Trusts and Estates
- Trusts and Estates
Awards:
- Recognized by 5280 Magazine as Top Lawyer – Trust and Estate, 2015
- Listed in Chambers HNW
- Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
News & Media
Additional Information
- Publications and Presentations
- Author, Trust Protectors: Powers, Capacity, and Selection, Colorado Lawyer, September 2012
- Speaker, Colorado Bar Association Trust and Estate Section Retreat, 2010 and 2012
- Co-Author with Jessica L. Broderick, Chapter 23, “Powers of Appointment,” Colorado Estate Planning Handbook (the “Orange Book Handbook”), 6th ed.
- Co-Author with Douglas M. Cain, New Planning Opportunities for Distributions from Qualified Plans and IRAs, The Colorado Lawyer, June 2001.
- Co-Author with Jessica L. Broderick and Taylor M. Dix, Decanting in Colorado: Nothing to Wine About, CBA Trust and Estate Member Newsletter — June 15, 2009.
- Speaker, CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) 2003 Annual Conference
- Speaker, Kaiser Permanente Seminar
- Speaker, Trust Company and Financial Management Seminars
- Speaker, Colorado Society of CPAs CPE Courses
- Speaker, Denver Trust Officers’ Association
- Representative Matters
- Assisted family with design and implementation of business and tax sensitive plan to transfer management and ownership of 50+ operating companies between generations; provide counsel to several families with issues of a similar nature and scope.
- Routinely design plans to transition wealth and ideals to future generations while minimizing impact of gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxes.
- Frequently provide counsel to surviving spouses and surviving children relating to administration of estates, transition of property to beneficiaries, and (with the assistance of family financial advisors) structures for diversification of portfolios to fit the intended disposition.
- Serve as lead estate counsel on litigation matters relating to definition of estate and trust terms, division of trust assets among disputing beneficiaries, appointment and discharge of fiduciaries, and reformation of estates and trusts to minimize unintended transfer tax consequences.
- Obtain numerous Guardianships and Conservatorships in contested and uncontested proceedings, counseling families on implementation and upkeep of structures to assist minors and incapacitated individuals.
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