Justyn is a Partner in the New York office, where he serves as Co-Head of the Cerity Partners Family Office. In this role, he leverages his expertise in complex estate and tax planning to advise ultra-high-net-worth clients with complicated balance sheets, including entrepreneurs and business owners, as well as partners of private investment funds navigating growth, succession, and liquidity events. As an attorney with an LL.M. in tax law, Justyn has a unique ability to understand the intricacies of the tax code and efficiently integrate them into clients’ lives. His knowledge spans multiple areas of tax law, including partnership taxation, where he works closely with CFOs of hedge funds, private equity funds, and operating businesses to ensure they are structured properly and operate tax-efficiently, and estate tax, where he has developed and implemented strategies to transfer fund and business interests to family trusts in a tax-efficient manner.
Prior to joining Cerity Partners, Justyn served as a Managing Partner of AJ Wealth, a New York-based registered investment advisor specializing in providing family office services to ultra-high-net-worth families that he co-founded in 2012. In this role, he applied his deep knowledge of the tax code to help manage clients’ wealth efficiently. Justyn’s skill set also extended to the asset management side of the business, where he helped build an investment platform grounded in modern portfolio theory and tax efficiency. Before AJ Wealth, he spent nearly 10 years as a Vice President at the Goldman Sachs Family Office, a multi-family office exclusively serving the partners of Goldman Sachs. In that role, Justyn worked closely with members of the executive committee and contributed to shaping the family office service offering for the firm’s partners.
