Gregg M. Simon

Gregg M. Simon

Gregg M. Simon
Principal
Phone: 312.521.2605 vCard
Fax: 312.521.2505
gsimon@muchshelist.com

PRACTICE GROUP

AT WORK

Gregg M. Simon is Chair of the firm's Wealth Transfer & Succession Planning group. He concentrates his practice in estate planning, federal estate and gift taxation, probate and trust administration, and business planning.

IN THE PROFESSION

Gregg is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and a member of the ACTEC Asset Protection and Fiduciary Income Tax Committees. Gregg is also a member of the Chicago and Illinois Bar Associations, the Chicago Estate Planning Council and the Greater North Shore Estate and Financial Planning Council. He is a past Chair and served on the Chicago Bar Association Trust Law Executive Committee from 1999 to 2006. He is also a member of the Chicago Bar Association's Probate Practice and Asset Protection Committees.

Gregg is a member of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Professional Advisory Committee. He authored "Handling Closely Held Business Interests and Other Special Assets" for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education publication Estate Planning for Illinois Attorneys: The Basics and Beyond and is a frequent speaker on estate planning and estate administration topics.

A registered certified public accountant and a licensed real estate broker, Gregg has been named an Illinois Super Lawyer (2007-2012) and was included on "The Top 100" list for 2009 and 2010. He has also been recognized by the Leading Lawyers Network as a top Illinois lawyer in the area of trust, will and estate planning law (2006-2012).

IN THE COMMUNITY

Gregg is a member of the Board and past President of the International Music Foundation, which sponsors classical music in inner-city schools, Dame Mira Hess concerts and the Do-It-Yourself Messiah.

A Boston-qualified marathon runner, Gregg has run on behalf of the American Cancer Society, the American Liver Foundation, Children's Memorial Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

BACKGROUND

Loyola University Chicago School of Law
J.D., 1987

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S., Accounting, 1984

Gregg is admitted to practice in Illinois, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and in the U.S. Tax Court.