Steve Gorin is a partner in Thompson Coburn LLP. Steve is a nationally recognized practitioner in the areas of estate planning and the structuring of privately held businesses. Lawyers, accountants, and business owners regularly look to Steve for fresh, highly knowledgeable insights into the best possible tax and estate planning approaches to their transactions. In addition to helping clients of his firm, he helps lawyers throughout the country, providing specialized assistance so they can do projects they might otherwise have been uncomfortable doing without him.

Before practicing law, Steve practiced accounting for 8 years and was a partner in a local CPA firm; he still maintains his CPA license and CGMA designation and actively participates in the Missouri Society of CPAs. He has held leadership positions relating to planning for business owners for the American College of Trust & Estate Counsel and for the American Bar Association’s Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Section.

He is a member of NAEPC’s Estate Planning Hall of Fame and in 2021 was the first person named Distinguished Estate Planner by St. Louis’ Estate Planning Council. Best Lawyers has named Steve as Lawyer of the Year for St. Louis in each of Tax Law and Business Organizations (including LLCs, and Partnerships), in addition to recognizing him for Trusts & Estates and for Closely Held Companies and Family Business Law. For more about him, see http://thompsoncoburn.com/people/steve-gorin .

Steve’s “Structuring Ownership of Privately-Owned Businesses: Tax and Estate Planning Implications” is a few thousand page fully searchable PDF. For a tax or estate planning professional to obtain the PDF and join the thousands who have decided to receive quarterly a link to the most recent version, both at no charge, go to http://www.thompsoncoburn.com/forms/gorin-newsletter .