Chris Siegle

Managing Director & Senior Wealth Advisor / J.P. Morgan Private Bank

Chris Siegle is a Managing Director and Senior Wealth Advisor in the Phoenix, Arizona, office of J.P. Morgan Private Bank. With his strong legal and tax background, he and his team provide successful individuals, families and organizations with creative strategies for investing, tax and estate planning, and family succession issues. His focus on family circumstances and grantor intent adds depth to every conversation.

Siegle’s advice on family dynamics, wealth preservation and individualized tax and legal structures is sought throughout the West. He is a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). He speaks and writes frequently on tax planning, charitable giving, investments and advanced estate planning strategies. He has presented to the American Bar Association Tax Section, Arizona State Bar Tax Section, Nevada Bar Association, the USC Tax Institute, the Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute, the Maricopa County and Collier County Bar Associations, the Southern Arizona, Southern Nevada, and East Valley Estate Planning Councils, Valley Estate Planners, Strafford CLE, and he has appeared at numerous other seminars and panels for professional groups.

Siegle joined J.P. Morgan in 2010 after practicing law in Arizona for more than 13 years, during which he focused on trusts and estates, employee benefits and corporate transactions. A member of the State Bar of Arizona, the Maricopa County Bar Association, and the American Bar Association Tax Section, he offers his expertise to his clients and to their other tax and legal advisors as well.

Siegle earned his J.D., with honor, from the University of Tulsa College of Law, his M.S.S. from The United States Army War College, and his LL.M. (Tax) from Villanova University School of Law. He received his A.B. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an adjunct Professor of Law in the graduate tax programs at both the Villanova University School of Law and the Loyola Law School. Chris is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Active in his community and imbued with a strong sense of responsibility and leadership, Siegle is a Captain (retired) in the U.S. Navy having served from 1990-2020.