Mitha Rao, Esq.
Mitha Rao is the Founder and Managing Attorney of Rao Legal, LLC. She is experienced in advising high-net-worth individuals, multigenerational families and closely-held business owners in wealth, tax, business and philanthropic planning. Her specific focus is helping clients plan for their personal and entrepreneurial legacies, and she often serves as a long-term counselor for her clients’ needs.
As both a trusted counselor and strategic advisor, she combines deep technical expertise in estate planning and business law with a long-term, solutions-oriented approach. Her integrated and holistic perspective helps clients align their personal, family and business objectives and develop strategies designed to preserve and build wealth across generations.
Mitha’s clients include executives, entrepreneurs, multigenerational families, professionals, corporate fiduciaries, including financial institutions, and owners of closely-held and family businesses. With fourteen years of legal experience, she has cultivated a particular expertise in estate tax planning, gift tax planning and business compliance, governance and succession planning.
A magna cum laude graduate of Duke University, she earned her law degree from the University of Chicago, receiving a merit-based Tony Patino Fellowship. Mitha serves on the Chicago Bar Foundation’s Young Professionals Board and speaks frequently on estate planning topics.
Mitha may be reached at mitha@raolegal.com.