Jaclyn G. Feffer

Ms. Feffer is Managing Director and Senior Fiduciary Counsel at Bessemer Trust. In this role, she is responsible for working with clients and their advisors to develop practical and efficient wealth transfer plans, and for guiding the firm on fiduciary issues. Jackie also oversees the Bessemer Giving Fund. She is a member of the firm’s Leadership Council.

Prior to joining Bessemer in 2013, Jackie was a Trusts and Estates attorney at Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP. Before that, she worked at Weil, Gotshal & Manges as a litigator, and was a law clerk for the Honorable Magistrate Joan M. Azrack of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York.

She is a Fellow of the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and Vice Chair of the Committee on Non-Tax Issues Affecting the Planning and Administration of Estates and Trusts of the Real Property, Trust and Estate Law section of the American Bar Association (ABA), as well as a member of the National Conference of Lawyers and Corporate Fiduciaries, which is a joint committee of the ABA and the American Bankers Association. She has presented nationally on a variety of estate planning topics.

Jackie earned an LL.M. from New York University, a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, and a B.S. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.