John Collins Has Joined Katten’s Private Wealth Practice as a Partner in Dallas

Date: 27 Feb 2025

Karen Jones

John Collins has joined Katten’s distinguished Private Wealth practice as a partner in the Dallas office.

John has more than 20 years of experience working extensively in estate tax planning, designing and implementing strategies that traverse traditional estate and wealth transfer planning to create complex generation-skipping and family dynasty trusts spanning multiple generations. This helps ensure preservation and efficient transfer of wealth. Chief among his well-regarded know-how is his ability to create plans geared toward tax optimization and fulfilment of various non-tax goals. 

John has assisted prominent families in multiphase estate planning, executing advanced trust and gift strategies, often working through complex tax, wealth transfer and business planning needs across a range of asset mixes, industries and stages of development.  

An accomplished public speaker particularly regarding individual, estate and gift tax matters, who has been an adjunct university professor, John formerly led a tax consulting and compliance team in the Dallas office of one of the world’s largest accounting firms. Prior to that, he offered similar services at a preeminent professional service network and afterwards was at a Denver law firm as tax counsel in the corporate and estate planning practice.

“A world-class private wealth practice requires an unerring combination of discretion, depth of knowledge and extensive experience. John checks those boxes and then some, making him a great fit for our team.” Joshua Rubenstein, National Chair of the Katten Private Wealth department

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