Myron E. Sildon

Myron E. Sildon, Chairman of Sildon & Evans Law Group, P.C. in Kansas City, has practiced and spoken extensively in a wide range of fields related to business law, including tax law, business succession, qualified plans, corporations, real estate, and estate planning. He was awarded degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School) and the University of Michigan (Juris Doctor). He is past president of both the Estate Planning Association and the Estate Planning Council, the predecessors of the Estate Planning Society of Kansas City, of which he is a member. Mr. Sildon is a Fellow of both the American College of Tax Counsel and the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. He is also a member of the IRS Regional Advisory Council on Exempt Plans and Exempt Organizations, the Board of the Small Business Council of America, and The Group, and is the founder of the National Association for Family Business. He was the founder of the National Association for Family Business. Mr. Sildon is the founder of the Federal Estate Planning Symposium and past chair of the Heart of America Tax Institute and the Employee Benefits Institute. He co-chairs the American Law Institute-American Bar Association (ALI-ABA) Institute on Estate Planning for the Family Business Owner, and has spoken at CLE symposia sponsored by ALI-ABA in cities across the country, as well as at Notre Dame, Duke, William and Mary, and at the Southern Federal, Georgia, Kentucky, Mid-America and Kansas Tax Conferences. He is a co-author of Missouri Bar Association books on closely held corporations, estate planning for the family-owned business, and family business planning, and the co-author of A Practical Guide to Buy-Sell Agreements, published by ALI-ABA. He has been listed in the book The Best Lawyers in America, edited by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, in the three areas of taxes, estates and trusts, and employee benefits law. He has been actively involved on the Board of Directors of the Kansas City Symphony, Young Audiences, the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, and Kansas City Consensus, and is a member of Rotary 13 and the Business Committee for the Arts. He served on the American Cancer Society national Board of Directors and received its St. George's Medal. A native Kansas Citian, he is married and has two grown children.