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Amy K. Kanyuk

Amy is a founding member of the firm, and 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 Tax Policy Study Committee, the Program Committee and the Asset Protection Committee. Amy is the official ACTEC observer to the Uniform Law Commission's Conflict of Laws in Trusts and Estates Committee, which is drafting a uniform law to address the problems of conflicts of laws in trusts and estates.  In addition, she is a co-Chancellor of ACTEC's New England Fellows Institute.  Previously, Amy served as the ACTEC state chair for New Hampshire from 2014 to 2017, and served for six years on both ACTEC's Board of Regents and its National Membership Selection Committee. 

Amy has been selected by her peers for inclusion in Woodward and White’s Best Lawyers in America, in the fields of tax law and trusts and estates, each year since 2007, 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, 2018, 2022 and 2024 Concord Tax Lawyer of the Year.  In a survey by Business New Hampshire magazine, Amy was selected by her peers as the best tax and trust and estate attorney in New Hampshire.  In each year since 2016, 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, and she wrote the New Hampshire chapter in the treatise, “Domestic Asset Protection Trusts - A Practice and Resource Manual,” which was published by the American Bar Association in 2021.  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.  

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. 

Amy received her bachelor of science in finance, with highest distinction, from Penn State University, and she earned both her law degree and M.B.A. from Boston College. She currently is pursuing her master's degree in creative writing and literature from Harvard University (extension school). 

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