Domingo P. Such III

Domingo is Chair of Dorsey’s Family Offices practice group. He advises public and private businesses and single and multifamily offices (including trustees and trust companies), serving as general counsel and driving their legal strategy in significant and complex matters. Informed by his M.B.A. education and business acumen, Domingo provides innovative and timely advice on income, gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax planning matters, charitable giving, and planning for succession of ownership during life and at death through estates and trusts. On behalf of family office clients, he participated in obtaining the 2020 year-end SEC ruling favorable to family offices building on the seminal family office exclusion established ten years prior. Recently, he has been a part of the direct investment and monetization of portfolio companies through SPACs and PIPEs. Chambers Global High Net Worth Guide notes that Domingo "understands the family implications and emotional implications of estate plans." His representation of wealthy families and high-net-worth individuals is distinctive for its business pragmatism that contributes to transactions coming to fruition and holistic relations-based solutions for family systems and the family members. 

Transactional Counsel

His transactional counsel includes structuring, negotiating, and documenting corporate formations, corporate governance, due diligence, mergers, acquisitions, and securities issuance. Domingo 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.

Prior to attending law school, Domingo earned his MBA degree and served as an auditor for a publicly traded ESOP manufacturing company. Applying business experience to legal issues facing clients, Domingo advises on the use and administration of ESOPs for succession planning and management buy-outs.

Domingo's role as general counsel to closely held businesses includes advising retailers, wholesalers, construction companies, hospitality real estate and software management companies, media, forestry, milling, and medical device manufacturers. In addition, he 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 many wealth management publications, including the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) Law Journal, Trusts & Estates magazine, Estate Planning magazine, Distribution Advisor, Aspatore Inside the Minds 2016 Edition, BNA Tax Management Estates, Gifts, and Trusts Journal, The National Center for Employee Ownership NCEO, Wealth Management, and the ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal.

Domingo is active in the community with bar activities, higher education activities, and service on charitable boards.