Gregory M. Kruzel

After more than 43 years of practice, Greg retired as an attorney on June 27, 2025.  Prior to his retirement, he and Brad Braun formed BCK in 1999, where Greg served as a partner and managing director for over 25 years. Greg aided businesses and individuals grow, manage, and develop their business and personal assets to maximize the benefit to themselves and to their families. He assisted business clients with the formation and sale of corporations, partnerships, family limited partnerships, and limited liability companies. He represented clients in lifetime tax and business planning, the purchase or sale of businesses, the transfer of family business interests to future generations, and the organization of business interests. He also represented trustees, personal representatives, and individuals in contested and non-contested estates, trust, and business matters. 

Greg graduated egregia cum laude with a B.A. from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota and received his Juris Doctorate from Notre Dame University. He was licensed to practice law both in Illinois and Arizona.

Greg was always dedicated to community service and is presently an Emeritus Member and former Chair of the Professional Advisory Board, Arizona Community Foundation; past Board Member and past Chair, McDowell Sonoran Conservancy; Member of the Professional Advisory Committee, Catholic Community Foundation; past Board Member of the Catholic Community Foundation; former Board member, Phoenix Children’s Hospital Foundation; former President, The Xavier Foundation, Inc.; and a former Member of the Central Arizona Estate Planning Council. He is an alumnus of Valley Leadership, Class XVI, and was an AV Rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell.

Greg was born in Chicago, Illinois but supports all aspects of the arts and sports in the Valley of the Sun. He loves to hike and is an avid film lover. Greg and his wife Kathy are former scout leaders and have two adult children, a daughter who is an Oncology Registered Nurse at the Oregon Health and Science University Hospital in Portland, Oregon and a son who is a Senior Vice President, Capital Markets at PIMCO in New York.