Charles Kaufmann joined the firm in April 2005 when his predecessor firm, Holland Kaufmann & Bartels, became the Greenwich office for Shipman & Goodwin. He was also associated with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett of New York, New York, and served as a law clerk to Justice Charles S. House of the Connecticut Supreme Court. He represents various business establishments, buyers and sellers of residential and commercial real estate and serves in a fiduciary capacity for estates and trusts.