Stephen P. Koster

skoster@vacovec.com

Stephen P. Koster, of counsel to the firm, concentrates his practice in income tax and estate tax planning for clients who include high net worth individuals and family groups with sophisticated investments or intricate family structures. Stephen devises complex estate plans, utilizing wills, trusts, partnerships and corporations as appropriate to the needs of the clients. He is experienced in corporate and tax planning for business entities, as well as advising family groups on general investment policies and strategies and charitable trusts and giving programs.

Stephen is a graduate of Harvard College (A.B., cum laude (Government), 1971) and Boston University School of Law (J.D., 1975). He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and before the U.S. Tax Court and is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association.

Since 1976, Stephen has been a Trustee of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. and is a member of the Board of Governors of Dana-Farber, Inc. At Dana-Farber, he is currently a member of the Joint Committee on Quality Improvement and Risk Management, the Trustee Science Committee, the Major and Planned Gifts Committee, the Leadership Giving Program Committee, and the Jimmy Fund Visiting Committee. He is a Dana-Farber representative to, and member of the Board of Directors of, MASCO (Medical Academic and Scientific Community Organization, Inc), which works to develop the Longwood Medical and Academic area for the benefit of the public and its constituent members. He is also a past Chairman of the Audit Committees of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Dana-Farber, Inc., and a past member of the Population Sciences Visiting Committee.

He is a member of the Senior Common Room at Eliot House (Harvard College), of the Board of Trustees of the Hillel Foundation of Cambridge, and of the Alumni Council at The Roxbury Latin School. He is a past member of the Board of Advisors of the Center for Neurologic Diseases at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, and serves as a trustee to several family groups and private foundations. Connected with the firm since 1980, he has served as general counsel for an investment syndicator and merchant bank.