Perrin is a Partner in the Houston office of Ytterberg Deery Knull LLP. Perrin’s practice includes representing individuals, fiduciaries, and closely-held businesses in a wide range of matters, such as domestic and international estate and trust planning, estate and trust administration, including probate and contested matters, charitable planning, and business structuring, governance and succession. Perrin has extensive experience representing individual and corporate fiduciaries and beneficiaries in connection with the administration of complex estates and trusts.  His clients include senior executives of public and private corporations and principals of private equity funds and other types of investment funds.

Prior to joining Ytterberg Deery Knull, Perrin served as an Executive Director and trust counsel for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC in New York, regularly advising Morgan Stanley and its affiliates on fiduciary and related matters, including advising investment professionals in connection with investment programs and strategies related to trusts and estates.

Perrin began his legal career with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York, where he was an associate attorney.  At Sullivan & Cromwell, Perrin similarly represented individuals, fiduciaries and closely held businesses in a wide range of matters.

EDUCATION

• University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2000
• Princeton University, summa cum laude, 1993

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

• Partner, Ytterberg Deery Knull LLP, 2011 – Present
• Executive Director, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, 2007 – 2011
• Associate Attorney, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, 2000 – 2007
• Officer, United States Army, 1993 – 1997

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Admitted to Practice: New York, 2001; Texas, 2011

OF NOTE

• Board certified in Estate Planning and Probate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization
• Committee Member, Texas Board of Legal Specialization Estate Planning and Probate Law Commission, 2022 to present
• Registered Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP), STEP Texas
• Speaker, “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017,” Houston, Texas, 2018
• Co-Author, “Gifts of Interest in Art after Estate of Elkins,” Sotheby’s Trusts & Estates Bulletin, Winter/Spring, 2015
• Speaker, “Estate Planning 2014,” Houston, Texas, 2014
• Presenter, “Planning for Flexible Trusts,” Houston, Texas, 2012