Mr. Bonneau is a member of the firm's Advanced Planning and Family Office Practice Group. His primary focus is in the areas of trusts and estates, estate administration and estate planning. His responsibilities include designing customized estate plans, counseling clients on lifetime and testamentary transfers and attendant transfer tax issues and assisting with trust funding, maintenance and administration. Additionally, Mr. Bonneau handles all aspects of testate and intestate estate administrations. Moreover, Mr. Bonneau counsels clients on advanced wealth transfer strategies, asset protection planning, succession planning and charitable planning.
Mr. Bonneau earned his Bachelor of Arts in English Degree from Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts and his Juris Doctorate Degree from the University of Dayton School of Law in Dayton, Ohio.
He is a member of the American, Illinois State, Ohio State and Chicago Bar Associations. Mr. Bonneau has been an active member of the Chicago Bar Association's Trust Law Committee; he served on the Trust Law Executive Committee in 2006-2007 and is serving again in 2007-2008. Mr. Bonneau is also involved in pro-bono work for Chicago's CEDLP (Community Economic Development Law Project), specifically presenting seminars on Wills.
Mr. Bonneau regularly attends professional seminars, including the following: the 2003, 2004, 2005, & 2006 Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute & the 39th & 41st Annual University of Miami School of Law Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning (2005, 2007).
In addition, he served as a co-instructor for a Spring 2007 Tax Seminar titled "Current Developments in Estate, Gift & Generation Skipping Transfer Tax" in the John Marshall Law School's LL.M. Program in Tax Law, and has recently been approved as an adjunct faculty member at the school. Mr. Bonneau will be teaching another course in Marshall's LL.M. program in the spring of 2008 titled "Asset Protection Planning."