Amanda M. D’Amico

Amanda M. D’Amico is a Cedar Rapids transactional attorney whose practice focuses on business and corporate law, taxation, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, estate planning, and probate. She advises businesses of all sizes and their owners on entity formation, operations, governance, and tax considerations. She also helps individuals and families develop estate and succession plans and guides fiduciaries and beneficiaries through the probate process.

D’Amico earned her J.D. with high distinction from the University of Iowa College of Law in 2004 and her B.B.A. with highest distinction from the University of Iowa in 2001. She also passed the CPA and CMA examinations in 2001, receiving the Elijah Watt Sells Award for her performance on the CPA exam. Her legal and accounting education supports practical analysis of complex business, tax, and wealth-planning matters.

D’Amico’s transactional work includes reviewing, negotiating, and drafting agreements involving mergers, asset and stock purchases, reorganizations, redemptions, and buy-sell arrangements. Her representative experience includes acquisitions involving transportation, construction technology, real estate, and quarry operations. She also advises on pass-through entities, qualified and nonqualified deferred compensation, gift and estate tax planning, family-business succession, charitable giving, wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and estate and gift tax returns.

Amanda M. D’Amico has been recognized for her corporate and mergers and acquisitions work by The Legal 500 US, Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America, and Great Plains Super Lawyers. Her professional affiliations include the Iowa State Bar Association’s Business Law, Probate, Trust and Estate Planning, and Taxation Law sections, as well as the Linn County Bar Association. She brings careful legal judgment and a strong tax and accounting perspective to clients’ business and personal planning needs.

Law Office Affiliations

• Member, Simmons Perrine PLC
• Member, Iowa State Bar Association, Probate, Trust & Estate Planning Section
• Member, Linn County Bar Association

Licensed State

• Iowa

Education

• University of Iowa College of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Iowa
  Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)