Domingo P. Such III - Lawyer in Chicago, IL

Domingo Such is a partner in the firm's Personal

Planning practice. He focuses his practice on financial, estate and tax planning

matters as they relate to ownership in various forms. This area of focus

provides him with particularly broad legal perspectives in counseling

family-owned and/or privately held businesses, as well as the family members and

owners involved in these businesses. He represents wealthy families and

individuals concerning significant and complex estates and trusts, advising on

gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax planning, charitable giving,

and planning for succession of ownership during life and at death. His ability

to serve such clients is further complemented and enhanced by his practical

business experience and graduate business degree.

Domingos experience includes transfer tax,

income tax, business planning, executive compensation planning for private and

public companies, charitable organizations and probate administration, and

corporate transactions, including structuring, negotiating and documenting

corporate formations, corporate governance, due diligence, mergers, acquisitions

and securities issuance. He has worked on corporate transactions for large

publicly owned clients, family investment funds, as well as closely held

emerging enterprises, and has represented family offices as well as fiduciaries

in contested and transactional matters. Domingo advises clients on the use and

administration of ESOPs for succession planning and management buy-outs, and

serves as the lead partner for one of the largest Chicago area ESOP-owned

manufacturers. Domingo also serves as outside general counsel to closely held

businesses across major industries including retailers and

wholesalers, construction and medical devices. In addition, he successfully

represents taxpayers on contested tax matters through federal and state audits,

administrative appeals and litigation in the U.S. Tax Court and U.S. District

Court.

Domingo has been quoted in Business Week,

The Wall Street Journal, Worth magazine, Crains Chicago

Business, Private Wealth, Bloomberg Wealth magazine,

Financial Advisor, Tax Notes Today, and Stages (a Fidelity

Investment magazine). He has published articles in the ACTEC Law

Journal, Trusts Estates magazine, Estate Planning

magazine, Distribution Advisor (a panel publication of Aspen

Publishers), CCH Incorporateds Journal of Practical Estate Planning and

Journal of Retirement Planning, Wealth Briefing, Financial Advisor,

The Family Business Succession Handbook, Private Wealth, Advance Planning

Services and in publications for the Family Firm Institute, Willamette

Management Associates, William Blair, Fidelity and ALI-ABA. He has served as a

director of closely held companies and not-for-profit corporations, and is a

member of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Chicago Community Trust,

Loyola University Medical Center, the Body of Knowledge Committee of the Board

of Directors of the Family Firm Institute and the Asian Art Council of the Art

Institute of Chicago. Domingo is also active with the Loyola University Chicago

Family Business Center and serves on the faculty for the Family Firm Institute

and lectures for classes at the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law and

Graduate School of Business. He is a past chairman, vice-chair and former

legislative liaison for the Chicago Bar Association (CBA) Trust Law Committee, a

past chairman, vice-chair and legislative liaison of the CBA Probate Practice

Committee, and a member of the American Bar Association, the Asian American Bar

Association and the Chicago Estate Planning Council. He also lectures nationally

on business and estate planning.

Domingo was selected for inclusion in the 2011

Citywealth Leading Lawyers list as a leading lawyer in North America by global

peers, clients and charitable organizations. The American College of Trust and

Estate Counsel (ACTEC), an association of distinguished trust and estate

attorneys, elected him to be a Fellow in 2009 on the basis of his professional

reputation, his ability in the fields of trusts and estates, and his substantial

contributions to the profession through lectures, writing, teaching and bar

activities. Worth magazine previously selected him as one of the

nations top 100 estate planning attorneys in the United States.

Domingo earned an advanced certificate in Family

Business Advising with Fellow status from the Family Firm Institute. He was

elected to the Leading Lawyers Network of Illinois by Law Bulletin Publishing

Company, was selected as one of Illinois Super Lawyers by Law

Politics (each honor is given to only the top 5% of all attorneys licensed

in Illinois since 2006) and was awarded a top Peer Review Rating by LexisNexis

Martindale-Hubbell. He is listed in Whos Who in America and Best Lawyers in

America. Domingo was also selected for the 2013 Top Rated Lawyer in Labor

Employment, which reflects his experience, integrity and overall professional

excellence.