Sanford S. Neuman

314-615-6206 (Office)
314-261-2806 (Fax)

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Areas of Practice:

Business Services

Income and Estate Tax Planning

Tax Controversies

Bar Admissions:

Missouri Bar

U.S. Tax Court

Education:

New York University School of Law, LL.M. (Taxation), 1961

Washington University School of Law, J.D., 1959

Washington University, B.S., 1956

Awards & Recognition:

Distinguished Alumni Award, Washington University School of Law, 2003

The Best Lawyers in America (Tax Law and Trusts & Estates) 1995-2011

Community Activities:

• President - Jewish Federation of St. Louis
• Member - Board of Trustees, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
• Member – Board of Directors, St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute
• Member - National Council, Washington University School of Law

Sanford Neuman concentrates his law practice in the areas of federal and state income tax, estate planning and business transactions.

A founding partner of the firm, Mr. Neuman represents corporations and owners of closely held corporations in various tax-related transactions, including tax-free exchanges of real estate.  He has obtained private letter rulings from the Internal Revenue Service in connection with the income tax aspects of various corporate transactions. He has served as an adjunct professor at Washington University School of Law teaching federal income tax law courses in the School's LL.M. program.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Neuman spent more than five years as a trial attorney with the Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Chief Counsel in Boston and in Louisville, Kentucky.  He has experience handling tax disputes, including litigation before the United States Tax Court.

Mr. Neuman has represented clients in numerous types of business transactions, including acquisitions, the sale of businesses and the representation of shareholders in disputes over control of closely held corporations.

Mr. Neuman is skilled in estate planning for owners of closely held businesses and has worked on a wide variety of estate planning problems, including the transfer of closely held businesses from one generation of family ownership to another, the use of revocable and irrevocable trusts, the use of life insurance in estate planning, and the use of charitable trusts to effect estate tax savings.