Igor Potym

Shareholder

T: +1 (312) 609 7542 F: +1 (312) 609 5005

Chicago

Igor Potym is a Shareholder in the Chicago office of Vedder Price, and has practiced estate planning, tax and general corporate law since 1980. Mr. Potym is a member of the firm’s Tax & Estate Planning group. He is responsible for new product research and development in the estate planning area of practice.

Mr. Potym is a frequent lecturer on a variety of estate planning and business succession planning topics before tax practitioners, nontax professionals and various associations and other groups, and has been quoted in many publications, including The Wall Street Journal. He has extensive experience in representing high net worth individuals, owners of closely held businesses, executives of major corporations and professionals with regard to estate, financial and tax planning matters.

Mr. Potym was selected for inclusion from 2006 to 2012 in Illinois Super Lawyers. In 2011, Mr. Potym was named one of the Leading Chicago Area Trust, Will and Estate Lawyers by Leading Lawyers Network. In addition, he received an "AV Preeminent" Peer Rating in Martindale-Hubbell.

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• (One-Page Notice) Estate Planning After The 2010 Tax Act - What You Need To Know And Do Now
• Estate Planning After The 2010 Tax Act - What You Need To Know And Do Now
• (One-Page Notice) Congress Finally Resolves Estate Tax Uncertainty: But Only for Two Years!
• Congress Finally Resolves Estate Tax Uncertainty: But Only for Two Years!

• Business Succession
• Estate and Trust Administration
• Estate Planning: Wills & Trusts
• Premarital Agreements
• Wealth Preservation and Transfer

• LL.M. (Taxation), DePaul University College of Law, 1985
• J.D., Marquette University Law School, 1980
• B.A., University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, 1977

• Illinois, 1980

• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Illinois State Bar Association
• Member, Chicago Bar Association