In today’s issue: American Summer at Citywealth: Chicago’s enduring entrepreneurial spirit. Citywealth Leaders List Released: Top 25 Chicago Advisors and Managers 2026 and Top 30 USA Domestic Trust Jurisdiction Advisers 2026. Article – Citywealth Leaders List: Domestic Trust Jurisdiction Advisers 2026. Citywealth IFC Awards 2027: The world’s specialist wealth centres. Citywealth Leaders List, 60 seconds interview: Gordon Puckey, Phoenix Financial PR, Diva Shah, Kingsley Napley, Kim Morgan, Butterfield Trust, Switzerland and Chris Hopkins, Katten. Citywealth Quick Insight Series on Tax Trends: Anna Warren, Bentley Reid. The Life of Frank Lloyd Wright, Famous American architect. The Broughton Sanctuary Launches Flagship Women’s Gathering. Contemporary African Art Fair Unveils Modern Spotlight. Lifestyle – Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography. Citywealth Leaders List and Membership Spotlight. |
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American Summer at Citywealth: Chicago’s enduring entrepreneurial spirit |
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Chicago has spent more than a century creating some of America’s greatest entrepreneurial fortunes. The city helped feed America through the Union Stock Yards and food companies that became global household names, including Kraft, Oscar Mayer, Sara Lee and Wrigley, while its manufacturing and transport industries created generations of family wealth. Read more → |
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Citywealth Leaders List Released:Top 25 Chicago Advisors and Managers 2026 |
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| Chicago has been creating wealth for more than a century. Built on industry, transport and trade, it remains one of America’s most important financial and commercial centres, combining established family fortunes with a growing generation of entrepreneurs, investors and business owners. Home to iconic names including the Pritzker, Crown, Wrigley, McCormick, Ryan and Mansueto families, the city has also become a centre for innovation, with major investment flowing into artificial intelligence, quantum computing and technology. Read more → |
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Citywealth Leaders List Released:Top 30 USA Domestic Trust Jurisdiction Advisers 2026 |
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| South Dakota, Delaware, Wyoming, Alaska and Nevada have each taken a different approach. Delaware remains the legal heavyweight, supported by its specialist Court of Chancery and an extensive body of trust law. South Dakota has become closely associated with perpetual dynasty trusts, directed trusts and flexible fiduciary governance. Read more → |
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Article: Citywealth Leaders List: Domestic Trust Jurisdiction Advisers 2026 |
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For decades, the conversation around international wealth structuring centred on offshore financial centres. Increasingly, however, sophisticated US families are also looking within the United States, with states such as South Dakota, Delaware, Wyoming and Alaska developing highly specialised trust legislation designed to attract long term private capital. Read more → |
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Citywealth IFC Awards 2027 – Shortlist released:The world’s specialist wealth centres |
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Citywealth Leaders List, 60 seconds interview:Gordon Puckey, Phoenix Financial PR |
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| A few years ago now a good friend suggested I might rebrand myself, as a consigliere. Tom Hagen was without a shadow of a doubt one of my favourite characters in The Godfather, and what a job it would have been to be the most trusted confidant of Don Vito Corleone……. I just couldn’t get myself past the mafioso connotation. Read more → |
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Citywealth Leaders List, 60 seconds interview:Diva Shah, Kingsley Napley |
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| I am a Legal Director in the Private Client team at Kingsley Napley. I advise high‑net‑worth individuals, entrepreneurs, families, trustees and executors on succession planning, including company/business succession, Wills and probate. I have particular expertise in advising business owners on succession planning, helping them navigate key milestones, including pre‑exit planning, governance arrangements for family businesses. Read more → |
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Citywealth Leaders List, 60 seconds interview:Kim Morgan, Butterfield Trust, Switzerland |
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| I’m Deputy Managing Director of Butterfield Trust (Switzerland) Limited. I’m one of the people colleagues come to when something needs unpicking – whether it’s a client matter, a governance or regulatory question, supporting the wider leadership team or simply talking something through. I enjoy bringing people together, solving problems and helping move the business forward. That’s what keeps the role interesting. Read more → |
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Citywealth Leaders List, 60 seconds interview:Chris Hopkins, Katten |
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| I am a partner in Katten’s Private Wealth practice in Chicago. I advise individuals, families, fiduciaries and family offices on estate planning, tax planning, trust and estate administration, and related succession matters. My practice is focused on helping clients preserve wealth, transfer assets efficiently, and navigate the personal, tax and legal issues that often arise at important inflection points for families and closely held businesses. Read more → |
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Citywealth Quick Insight Series on Tax Trends:Anna Warren, Bentley Reid |
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| There are still plenty of options for UHNW individuals and families. I would say the following in terms of which jurisdictions are becoming more (or less) attractive: Less attractive: The UK, which was the model of attractiveness for UHNW for years has obviously had a fall from grace, with the replacement of the narrow 4-year FIG regime and IHT based on residence rather than domicile (particularly with the potential for a long-tail). Read more → |
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| The Life of Frank Lloyd Wright, Famous American architect.
Wright gained such cultural primacy for good reason: he changed the way we build. Read more → |
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| Broughton Sanctuary Launches Flagship Women’s Gathering
‘Sanctuary of She’ blends transformational retreat with immersive festival. Read more → |
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| The Contemporary African Art Fair Unveils Modern Spotlight
West Wind complements this year’s gallery line-up in a fair built on ambition. Read more → |
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LifestylePortrait of a City: A Century of American Photography |
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| The exhibition explores one hundred years of American urban life through the people who lived, worked, and moved through its streets. Featuring works by 34 influential photographers from 1907 to 2012, the exhibition traces how photography evolved alongside the modern city, capturing individuals and communities shaped by and shaping their environments. Read more → |
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Citywealth Leaders List spotlightThe Citywealth Leaders List is a user rating directory of the leading individuals in international private client and wealth management. The Leaders List hosts our Top Lists – independent curations of the best professionals in their fields. See below a spotlight on a few of the stellar individuals that make up our directory. |
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| Patricia M. Annino, Partner, Rimon Law. View her profile here. |
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| Scott Weaver, General Counsel & CFO, Willow Street. View his profile here.
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| Maxine Bodden Robinson, Founder, IMG Trust. View her profile here. |
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Citywealth Membership spotlight |
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| Druces’ Private Wealth team advises high‑net‑worth individuals, families, and trustees on protecting, managing and passing on wealth across generations. The practice covers wills, trusts, estate and succession planning, tax structuring and probate. Since 1767. |
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