Suma V. Nair

Suma oversees Fiduciary Services for Fiduciary Trust Company and their New Hampshire affiliate, Fiduciary Trust of New England. She also leads the firm’s trust and estates legal department, which received the 2021 Best Estate Planning Advisory Services Award from Private Asset Management. She enjoys using her and the broader firm’s extensive trust and estate expertise to effectively protect and serve clients’ interests today as well as across generations.

Prior to joining Fiduciary, Suma was a Director in the Private Client and Trust practice group of Goulston & Storrs PC, where she began her legal career, and served as a member of its Executive Committee. During her sixteen years at G&S, she focused on providing sophisticated estate and tax planning advice to high-net-worth individuals and families, including counseling clients on charitable giving and family and tax matters involving business and wealth succession planning. Suma also served as a trustee of clients’ trusts and as a personal representative of their estates, in addition to advising outside trustees on best practices in managing their fiduciary obligations and advocating on behalf of beneficiaries of trusts.

She has been named by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in 2021 as one of the “Top Women of Law,” and Chambers High Net Worth has recognized her for the past five years. She is a frequent speaker and panelist for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, the Boston Bar Association, and other organizations.