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Amy K. Kanyuk

Amy is licensed to practice law in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and South Dakota.  She concentrates her practice on estate, gift and generation-skipping planning for individuals and families of high net worth, as well as estate and trust administration. She holds the highest rating of A-V from Martindale Hubbell, and is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), where she serves on the Board of Regents (ACTEC’s governing board), the Long Range Planning Committee and the National Membership Selection Committee.  Amy also serves on ACTEC’s Asset Protection Committee. She served as the ACTEC state chair for New Hampshire from 2014 to 2017.

Amy has been selected numerous times by her peers for inclusion in Woodward and White’s Best Lawyers in America, in the fields of tax law and trusts and estates, and as a New Hampshire Super Lawyer.  She was named by Best Lawyers as the 2011 and 2017 Concord Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year, and as the 2014, 2016 and 2018 Concord Tax Lawyer of the Year.  In a 2010 survey by Business New Hampshire magazine, Amy was selected by her peers as the best tax and trust and estate attorney in New Hampshire.  For the past three years, Amy has been named a “Band One” New Hampshire private wealth lawyer by Chambers and Partners. 

Amy’s articles and comments about tax and estate planning have appeared in a number of publications, including Trusts and Estates, Estate Planning, Barron’s, the Journal of Accountancy, Massachusetts Lawyer’s Weekly, the New Hampshire Bar News and the New Hampshire Business Review.  She frequently lectures before professional and civic groups throughout the United States on tax and estate planning topics.  Amy also has served as an adjunct professor at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, teaching Wills, Trusts and Estates.  She is often retained as an expert witness to provide opinions and testimony in trust and estate litigation. 

Amy is a member of the New Hampshire, Massachusetts and South Dakota Bar Associations. She served on the Legislation Committee of the New Hampshire Bar for ten years, and has worked extensively on legislation to improve and modernize New Hampshire’s trust laws, testifying many times before the state legislature in this regard. 

In addition to her legal practice, Amy is a founder and director of Concord Trust Company, LLC, a non-depository directed trust company located in Rapid City, South Dakota and Bedford, New Hampshire.

Amy received her bachelor of science in finance, with highest distinction, from Penn State University in 1990.  She earned both her law degree and M.B.A. from Boston College in 1994. 

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