Igor Potym

Shareholder

T: 312-609-7542 F: 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 has been recognized by his peers as an Illinois Super Lawyer.

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• Declining Interest Rates Yield High Estate Planning Returns
• Kiddie Tax to Reach Adult Children
• Stock Market Decline Creates Estate Planning Opportunity
• IRS Estate Tax Victories Require Action By Family Limited Partnerships, LLCs and Corporations

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

• LL.M. in 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