Christopher Johnson

Christopher S. Johnson
Senior Vice President Senior Trust Advisor

948 Laskin Road

Virginia Beach, VA 23451

chris.johnson@truist.com

Phone 757-910-3151

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About me

Background

Chris is a Senior Trust Advisor with Truist Wealth. For over seven years, he has focused on providing stability, protection, and continuity to his clients’ wealth-transfer and business-succession plans. He plays an important role in helping his clients transfer assets to the next generation and beyond (including charities his clients are passionate about), ensure that loved ones are provided for, and protect and preserve business and other privately-held investments. Chris helps families manage the complexities of wealth transfer, avoid common pitfalls, and address associated burdens, especially tax burdens, by working with his clients legal and tax advisors. Before working in the wealth management industry, and after a one-year clerkship with the United States Tax Court, Chris practiced as an attorney in the areas of trusts, estates, and business taxation.

*Truist and its representatives do not provide tax or legal advice. You should consult your individual tax or legal professional before taking any action that may have tax or legal consequences.

Education

Master of Laws LL.M., in Taxation
Georgetown University Law Center 2009 2010
Juris Doctor, cum laude
University of Richmond School of Law 2006 2009
Bachelor of Arts in Economics
The University of Virginia 1999 2003

Personal Interests

Chris currently serves on the boards of ACCESSCollege Foundation and the Virginia Symphony Foundation. He enjoys leading worship audio/visual production at First Baptist Church Newport News, where he also chairs the Stewardship Committee. You can find Chris riding his 2011 Harley-Davidson Road King, cooking in barbecue competitions, and spending time in the Outer Banks or in Charlottesville cheering on his Virginia Cavaliers. Chris lives in Newport News with his wife, Margaret ("Grete"), and his two daughters, Emily and Sarah.

Specialties

  • Cash-flow forecasting, business planning, asset accumulation strategies, savings and tax planning, executive compensation, retirement distributions

  • Innovative, customized risk management strategies and solutions in partnership with McGriff and Truist Life Insurance Services, designed to protect every facet of your assets and income.

  • Wills; trust, estate, gift, wealth transfer, and generation-skipping tax planning; estate administration and settlement; and more

  • Philanthropic strategies, charitable structure evaluation, private foundations and grant management, donor advised funds

  • Trust formation and planning strategies, corporate trustee and executor services, trust administration and management, successor and irrevocable life insurance trustee, Delaware and dynasty trusts

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