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John P.C. Duncan

Partner, Kozusko Harris Duncan

John Duncan is a partner in the Chicago office of Kozusko Harris Duncan, private client/wealth management counsel. A former head of Jones Day’s world-wide bank and investment practice, John formed Duncan Associates in 2000 to focus on representing single and multi-Private Family Trust Companies. John has assisted clients in the formation of over one hundred trust companies in 14 states, including national trust banks. He drafted the CSBS Trust Options and drafted or advised on drafting comprehensive trust, trust company and other financial institution and trust laws for Illinois, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Wyoming and Florida, as well as federal and state regulations of trust companies.

John’s Recent activity

The MDT, Defined
Nov 01, 2008
The model for a managing directed trustee (MDT) comes from organizations like family offices and private trust companies (PTCs) that evolved, in part, to support and coordinate a family's trustees and other financial...
Multi-Participant Trusts Need a Coordinator
Nov 01, 2008
Multi-participant trusts1 have become immensely popular. These trusts replace the single, all-powerful trustee with a host of independent decisionmakers, all deriving their authority directly from the trust instrument...
Breaking the PTC Logjam
Sep 01, 2008
The logjam that for eight years has checked the pace of private trust company (PTC) creations will be dislodged when the Internal Revenue Service finalizes its proposed revenue ruling, perhaps as soon as the end of...
Anticipated: Ruling on PTCs
Jul 01, 2006
In the past dozen years, spurred by the Prudent Investor Act and other major new trust laws, families with substantial trust assets (typically $100 million and more) have turned in growing numbers 1to organizing and...
Master and Commander
Dec 01, 2003
Just 20 years ago, a sophisticated family plan might have employed a single trust, subdivided into two or perhaps three sub-trusts. A sole individual or bank served as the family's trustee. Today, popular planning...
The Private Trust Company: It Has Come of Age
Aug 01, 2003
In the late 1980s, not long after I took my traditional bank-and-trust-companies practice to the new Chicago office of a mega law firm, Jay Hughes, generations-bridging counsel to wealthy families and one of my new...