Cynda C. OttawayShareholder/Director

Cynda Ottaway is a director and chair of the firm’s Private Wealth & Closely-Held Business Practice Group in the Oklahoma City office. Her practice focuses on estate planning, trust and estate administration and litigation and planning for closely-held family businesses. Cynda has experience in wealth transfer techniques and assists individuals and businesses with succession planning.

Cynda serves as past president of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), the leading trust and estate organization of peer-elected trust and estate lawyers. She has been a member for over 25 years and has served in several other leadership roles with ACTEC including service on the Executive Committee, the Board of Regents and the ACTEC Foundation. Cynda is also a frequent speaker and writer for the organization, having served as co-reporter for the ACTEC Commentaries on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, Fourth Edition, 2006.

In addition to her legal practice, Cynda is an active community volunteer in Oklahoma City, serving on several boards including United Way, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Board of Visitors for the College of Law and the Honors College at the University of Oklahoma. She is a member of Leadership Oklahoma City and Rotary Club 29.

Ottaway is the recipient of many honors, awards and rankings including*:

  • Named Best Lawyers 2014, 2010 Lawyer of the Year (Oklahoma City) in the field of Trusts and Estates
  • Named Best Lawyers 2012 Lawyer of the Year (Oklahoma City) in the field of  Non-Profit/Charities
  • Listed in Best Lawyers in the field of Closely Held Companies and Family Business Law, Non-Profit/Charities, Tax Law, Trusts and Estates (1989 – Present)
  • Named Super Lawyers Top 25 Women in Oklahoma (2006 – 2013)
  • Ranked in Super Lawyers, Estate Planning and Probate (2006 – Present)

*Crowe & Dunlevy has no input in the rating methodologies used by Best Lawyers or Oklahoma Super Lawyers.

Cynda C. Ottaway
Business Transactions
cynda.ottaway@crowedunlevy.com
Oklahoma City

324 North Robinson Avenue Suite 100
Oklahoma City, OK 73102

Phone: 405.235.7736
Fax: 405.272.5280

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