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Quentin Heisler is partner-in-charge of McDermott Will & Emery LLP's Chicago office. George previously served as the head of the Firm's Private Client Department. The Firm's Chicago office includes over 300 attorneys and more than 30 professional advisors and legal assistants. Attorneys in the office practice in a wide variety of areas including antitrust, bankruptcy, corporate, corporate responsibility, e-business, employee benefits, energy and derivatives markets, environmental, labor and employment, mergers and acquisitions, private clients, product liability, health, intellectual property, international, legislative, litigation, securities, taxation and trust & estates.
George concentrates his practice in estate and business planning, with particular emphasis on the succession and transfer tax problems of families that control public and closely held companies. George is actively engaged in the structuring of family business control and valuation devices, insurance planning to facilitate the retention of family businesses, multi-generational tax and estate planning for wealthy families, executive compensation planning and asset protection planning. His clientele includes public and private corporations and their executives and shareholders, professionals, individual investors, trust beneficiaries, trusts, estates and foundations.
George is a member of the bars of Illinois, Florida and the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the Chicago Estate Planning Council and is a frequent lecturer on estate and business planning matters. George is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and has been selected as a trust and estates specialist in The Best Lawyers in America, and has been recognized as "a leading lawyer in wealth management" at the national level in the 2006 and 2007 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. In December 2007, George was selected by Worth magazine as one of the nation's top 100 estate planning lawyers. George has also been named an Illinois Super Lawyer in the area of estate planning & probate by Law & Politics.
He is a co-author of Working with Family Businesses (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1995). George was general editor of Trust Administration in Illinois in 1983 and is co-author of Discretionary Trust Distributions (revised 2002).
George is a Trustee of the Shedd Aquarium and is a member of its Executive Committee. He also chairs the Gift Planning Advisory Committees of the Art Institute of Chicago and of the Shedd Aquarium and serves on the Planned Giving Advisory Council of Ravinia and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He is a former President of the Harvard Club of Chicago and a former Chairman of the Winnetka Caucus in Winnetka, Illinois. George also served on the District 36 (Winnetka, Illinois) Board of Education.
Education:
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1968
Harvard College, A.B. (magna cum laude), 1965 | 