Pamela L. Rollins is a Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Head of the Personal Planning Department.  Ms. Rollins advises clients on estate planning and estate and trust administration.  Her practice includes developing and implementing strategies to achieve preservation and transmission of family wealth while minimizing transfer taxes.  Ms. Rollins provides advice regarding structuring business interests, issues relating to art collections, charitable giving and management of a wide variety of family holdings and enterprises.  Ms. Rollins has a special expertise in planning with privately held business interests, including hedge fund and private equity interests.

Ms. Rollins is a member of the American Bar Association (former Vice-Chair; Committee on Estate Planning and Drafting, Generation Skipping; former Chair, Committee on Cash Flow and Asset Management); The New York State Bar Association; The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Ms. Rollins is a frequent lecturer on Trusts and Estates and Estate and Tax Planning.

Ms. Rollins received her A.B. from Cornell University in 1979 and her J.D. from Cornell University School of Law in 1982, where she was a Member and Note Editor of the Cornell Law Review.  Ms. Rollins also received an MBA in 1984 from the Cornell Graduate School of Management and an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law in 1990.

Honors/Associations

•	Dean's List
•	American Bar Foundation, Fellow
•	American Bar Association, Former Chair, Committee on Cash Flow and Asset Management, Section of Real Property, Probate and Tax Law, 1990-1992
•	American Bar Association, Vice Chair, Committee on Generation Skipping Legislation, Section of Real Property, Probate and Tax Law, 1992-Present
•	New York State Bar Association
•	The Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Publications

•	Super Committee May Target Gift and other Transfer Tax Exclusion Amounts
•	October’s Historically Low Interest Rates Enhance Intra-Family Transfers
•	New Law Creates Estate Planning Opportunities
•	Simpson Thacher Partner Pamela L. Rollins and Associate Nicole Bari Rubin Co-Author Book on Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts
•	Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts Line by Line, Co-author, Aspatore Press, January 2011
•	Estate Planning Alert: Opportunities that Expire December 31, 2010
•	Estate Planning Update
•	Estate Planning Update
•	Estate Planning Developments
•	The 2010 Lapse in Federal Estate and GST Taxes: Planning Issues
•	Current and Year-End Estate Planning Issues
•	Guide To Wills & Estates, Reviewer, American Bar Association, Second Edition, 1995, 2001, 2004
•	Current Gift, Estate, and GST Tax Issues
•	Current Gift, Estate, and GST Tax Issues
•	Current Gift, Estate and GST Tax Issues
•	Legal Guide for Women - What every woman needs to know about the Law and Marriage, Health Care, Divorce, Discrimination, Retirement and More, Contributor, American Bar Association, 2004
•	Family Legal Guide, Contributor, American Bar Association, Third Edition, 2004
•	Current Estate and GST Tax Issues
•	Current Estate Planning Issues: Increase In Applicable Exclusion Amount, New Federal Regulations on Disclosure of Health-Care Information, and Strangi v. Commissioner
•	Change In Federal Estate Tax May Increase State Death Taxes
•	Chapter 14, Practising Law Institute
•	Trusts and Estates Weekly (Editorial Advisory Board)
•	Current Estate, Gift, GST, and Income Tax Issues and Planning Opportunities
•	GRAT Regulations Example 5 Invalid, Co-author, New York Law Journal, April 2, 2001
•	Remainders of the Day: The Demise of Gradow?, Co-author, Probate and Property, May/June 1998
•	Selected Provisions of Interest to Individuals in President Clinton's Recent Budget Proposal
•	Completed Gifts to Offshore Trusts and the Three Year Rule, Journal of Asset Protection, Mar/Apr, 1996

Admissions

•	New York 1984

Education

•	New York University School of Law, 1990 LL.M. Tax
•	Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management, 1984 M.B.A.
•	Cornell Law School, 1982 J.D. Cornell Law Review, Note Editor, 1980-1982
•	Cornell University, 1979 A.B.