Chicago Office
300 N. LaSalle Street Suite 4000
Chicago,
Illinois
60654
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Professional Experience
Kirk Hoopingarner is a partner in the Firm’s Trusts and Estates and Tax-Exempt Organizations practice groups. For over twenty years, Mr. Hoopingarner has concentrated his practice on all facets of wealth planning and philanthropy for high-net worth families and individuals. He has counseled his clients on a broad range of matters involving the management and transfer of wealth including charitable gifting techniques, all types of trusts used in family wealth management and transfers, business succession planning, family limited partnerships and limited liability companies, asset protection, and federal and state estate and gift tax planning. Mr. Hoopingarner also has extensive experience in sophisticated charitable planning, both for individual donors and for substantial charitable organizations.
Education and Honors
- University of Michigan Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1984)
- Hope College (B.A., 1981)
Bar Admissions
Illinois,
1984
Professional Recognition
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® (2012: Trusts & Estates). Selected for inclusion in the 2006-2012 Illinois Super Lawyers® lists (Estate Planning & Probate).
Professional and Civic Activities
- Chicago Bar Association (Member).
- Chicago Estate Planning Council (Member).
- Donors Forum (Vice-Chair Associate Member's Committee).
- Corporate Responsibility Group of Greater Chicago (Past-President).
- Evanston Community Foundation (Past-Chair).
- Children’s Memorial Foundation (Member, Professional Advisors Council).
- Chicago Zoological Society (Member, Planned Giving Advisory Committee).
- McGaw YMCA of Evanston, Illinois. (Chair).
- Lincoln Park Zoo (Member, Planned Giving Advisory Council).
Selected Presentations/Publications
- Presenter, “Ten Things Not to Miss in Charitable Planning,” Tampa Bay Community Foundation, February 2012.
- Quoted, “A Trust Surges, Heirs and Taxes in Mind, but Mind the Details,” The New York Times, July 22, 2011.
- Speaker, “Impact of Federal and State Estate Tax Reform on Charitable Giving,” presentation to Associate Member Peer Exchange of Donors Forum, May 10, 2011.
- Co-Presenter (with Betsy Brill of Strategic Philanthropy), “Ten Things Not to Miss in Charitable Planning,” Chicago Estate Planning Council, October 21, 2010 and Greater North Shore Estate & Financial Planning Council, July 20, 2011.
- Speaker, “Legal Issues to Consider When Being Strategic in Spending Down...or Choosing Perpetuity,” Donors Forum, May 21, 2010.
- Speaker, “Responsible Investment Practices for Nonprofit Managers and Directors,” presentation co-sponsored by McGaw YMCA and Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, June 9, 2010.
- Speaker, “The Effect of the Economic Downturn and 2009 Federal Tax Legislation on Charitable Planning Techniques,” sponsored by Chicago Botanic Garden and JP Morgan Chase, October 28, 2009.
- Panel participant, “The Rise of the Family Foundation,” Association of Fundraising Professionals, Chicago chapter, September 2009.
- Speaker, “Estate Planning Considerations for Parents of Disabled Children,” Center for Independent Futures, June 2009.
- Speaker, “The Effect of the Economic Downturn on Charitable Planning Techniques,” McGaw YMCA, June 2009.
- Speaker, “Aging Donors: Capacity vs. Incapacity - Best Practices for Professional Advisors,” sponsored by Chicago Council on Planned Giving, March 2009.
- Author, “The Estate Collar: Help Estates Profit from the Market,” Trusts and Estates, December 2008.
- Panel participant, “Dealing with Aging Clients: Capacity vs. Incapacity,” sponsored by Advocate Health Care, October 2007.
- Author, “Family Limited Partnerships,” chapter for IICLE Business Law Series, 2005, Updated 2007 and 2010.
- Panel participant, Gift Acceptance Policies for Not-For-Profit Conference of Illinois CPA Society, 2004.
- Author, “Commentary on Trust and Estate Income Taxation,” Kleinroch’s Tax Library, February 1999.
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