Jennifer N. Chapman

Jennifer Chapman is a member of the firm’s Private Wealth practice group, where she leverages her extensive tax expertise to provide comprehensive estate and business succession planning solutions. With nearly two decades of experience, Jennifer helps families, individuals, and business owners achieve their personal and professional goals through tax strategies that protect assets, minimize tax burdens, preserve legacies, and ensure the seamless transfer of wealth according to her clients’ wishes.

Her advanced qualifications, including an LL.M. in Taxation from the University of Florida and her prior role at Ernst & Young, LLP, where she provided complex income, gift, and estate tax consulting services to high-net-worth individuals, enable her to craft sophisticated, tax-efficient wealth transfer strategies. These strategies often incorporate charitable giving vehicles, multi-generational trusts, intra-family gift and loan arrangements, and investment entities.  Additionally, Jennifer provides strategic counsel to business owners on tax-efficient wealth transfers involving their business or business assets, and utilizes her knowledge and experience to navigate the tax implications of business acquisitions, transitions, and successions.

Jennifer takes a collaborative approach to estate planning and works closely with her clients’ team of wealth advisors, accountants, and other legal professionals to develop comprehensive and integrated plans. She proactively identifies gaps or additional needs in her clients' planning teams, frequently introducing trusted professionals to address specific concerns and ensure holistic support tailored to each client’s unique circumstances.

In addition to estate and business succession planning, Jennifer assists personal representatives through the probate process and serves as counsel to trustees in trust administration, disputes, and litigation. She has also represented clients in IRS examinations, guiding them through audits and resolving compliance matters.

When not working, Jennifer enjoys spending time with her husband and trying to keep with her energetic twin sons.

• Florida Bar Association
• Hillsborough County Bar Association
• The Tampa Connection, Class of 2012
• Member, Easterseals Florida, State Executive Board of Directors (2024)
• Member, Easterseals Florida, State Board of Directors, Member (2021-2024)
• Member, Easterseals Tampa, Advisory Board 2020-2024)
• Member, Tampa Chamber of Commerce, Minority Business Accelerator Program and Minority Empowerment Program, Leadership Council
• Member, Tampa Chamber of Commerce, Policy Council
• Member, Tampa Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors

Recognized in Best Lawyers in America®, 2024, 2025
   • Tax Law
   • Trusts and Estates

Tampa Magazine, Top Lawyers, Tax Law (2023), (2025)

Publications & Speaking Engagements

• Editor, The Ernst & Young Tax Guide, 2013.
• Author, “Investors Beware: The Global High Wealth Industry Group Audits are Coming,” Tax Talk (in-house publication), December 2010.
• Presenter, “Selected Topics in International Trust Transactions: A Case Study,” (in-house seminar), December 15, 2010.
• Presenter, “Significant Rulings, Cases and Legislation Affecting Estate, Trust and Gift Rules,” Tax & Technical Business Seminar, Lakeland, Fla., November 17, 2010.
• Co-Author, “Partnership Structural Changes: Deductibility of Expense under Secs. 1.263(a)-5 & 709,” The Tax Advisor, September 2009 at 591.

Jennifer was born and raised in Pontiac, Michigan.