Peter Slater

Mr. Slater is Managing Director and Senior Fiduciary Counsel at Bessemer Trust. In this role, he 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. In addition, he oversees the firm's Cayman Island operations and serves as Chair of the International Task Force.

Prior to joining Bessemer in 2012, Peter was a special counsel at Withers Bergman LLP in New York, specializing in trusts and estates and tax from a domestic and international perspective. Before that, he worked at Dewey Ballantine LLP as an associate in the tax and corporate groups, in the London and New York offices.

He has presented on a variety of estate planning and income tax topics and is a member of STEP (Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners).

Peter earned a J.D./LL.M. (International & Comparative Law) from Duke University School of Law and a B.A. in philosophy from the College of the Holy Cross.