Domingo Such is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Chicago office. Domingo focuses his practice on financial, estate and tax planning matters as they relate to ownership in various forms, which provides him with particularly broad legal perspectives in counseling family-owned and/or privately-held businesses and family members. His abilities to serve such clients are 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 and probate administration, and corporate transactions, including structuring, negotiating and documenting corporate formation, corporate governance, due diligence, mergers, acquisitions and securities issuance. He has worked on corporate transactions for some of the Firm’s largest publicly owned clients as well as closely-held emerging enterprises. He has also successfully represented taxpayers on contested tax matters through 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 and Stages (a Fidelity Investment magazine), and has published articles in 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, 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; 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; and is active with Loyola University Chicago Family Business Center. He is 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 and former legislative liaison for the Chicago Bar Association (CBA) Trust Law Committee, a past chairman 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 lectures nationally on estate and business planning and represents wealthy families and individuals concerning significant and complex estates and trusts. Domingo advises on gift, estate and generation skipping transfer tax planning; charitable giving; corporate and tax issues affecting closely held businesses, their owners and families; and planning for succession of ownership during life and at death.
Domingo has been recognized for his accomplishments. Recently, he was selected for inclusion in the 2010 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 Domingo 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 Domingo as one of the nation’s top 100 estate planning attorneys in the United States. He has earned his Certificate in Family Business Advising and has been elected to the Leading Lawyers Network of Illinois by Law Bulletin Publishing Company as well as selected as one of Illinois’ Super Lawyers by Law & Politics (each honor is given to only the top 5 percent of all attorneys licensed in Illinois). Domingo was awarded a top Peer Review Rating by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell; the rating reflects his expertise, experience, integrity and overall professional excellence. Domingo has been also previously selected for Who’s Who in America.
Education
- Loyola University Chicago School of Law, J.D. (cum laude)
- Washington University in St. Louis, MBA
- Washington University in St. Louis, B.A. (cum laude)
