About Domingo

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. Domingo’s 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, Crain’s 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 Incorporated’s 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 nation’s 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 Who’s 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.

Practice Areas

Education

• Washington University in St. Louis, BA
• Washington University in St. Louis, MBA

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, Illinois State Bar Association

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