Ellen O. Bonito

Ellen Bonito has been working with high-net-worth individuals and families, as well as their family offices, for over 25 years. Ellen specializes in sophisticated income and estate tax planning which includes income tax planning and compliance, succession and estate tax planning, carried-interest planning, and gifting to charitable and social welfare organizations. Ellen has extensive experience with partnership, gift, estate, trust, foundation, and individual taxation. She collaborates closely with her clients, attorneys, and investment advisers to develop, implement, and maintain tax planning strategies that address her client's evolving needs and objectives from both a tax efficiency and a wealth-transfer perspective.

Ellen’s clients include owner/operators of businesses, entrepreneurs, high-level executives of public companies as well as founders and managers of private equity and hedge funds. Ellen also serves high-profile authors, athletes, and musicians by providing cash flow planning as well as an understanding of their particular tax considerations given the unique nature of their fine craft.

Before joining Andersen, Ellen worked in the tax practice of Arthur Andersen in San Francisco, and the assurance practice of PwC in Boston. Ellen is a founding member of Andersen.

While in graduate school, Ellen was the recipient of the “Academic Excellence Award,” an honor bestowed upon the valedictorian of the Masters in Accountancy program at the University of Notre Dame. 

Ellen is a contributor to the treatise Tax Economics of Charitable Giving. She has also been published in the periodical Taxation of Exempts.