Stephen A. Brown
Stephen Brown focuses his practice on business formation and structuring, wealth transfer planning, and litigation involving fiduciaries, trusts, estates and guardianships.
Stephen regularly advises individuals on a range of estate planning strategies, including the use of simple and complex trust arrangements to achieve their personal and charitable objectives in a tax advantaged manner. He also has extensive experience advising clients regarding estate, trust and guardianship matters, including will disputes, breach of fiduciary duty claims, marital rights in estate and trusts, irrevocable trust modification, asset protection, and incompetency proceedings.
Stephen also advises closely held businesses on a range of issues, including governance, mergers and acquisitions, buy-sell agreements, employment agreements and federal and state tax disputes.
Stephen graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina School of Law where he served as a staff member and published author of the North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology. He joined Young Moore and Henderson in 2011 after practicing with other area firms and was named a shareholder in 2014.
- Recipient of the J. Nelson Young Tax Scholarship at the University of North Carolina School of Law
- Listed in North Carolina Super Lawyers® 2018 as a “Rising Star,” a category for attorneys age 40 and younger
Raleigh, North Carolina 27622-1627