Ernest N. Yarnevich, Jr., Attorney - The Law Firm of Slagle, Bernard & Gorman

Attorney Ernest N. Yarnevich Jr., Slagle, Bernard & Gorman

Mr. Yarnevich has been with the firm for his entire career, which began in 1969. His practice has been primarily in the corporate, tax and securities areas with emphasis in the acquisition and disposition of businesses and business properties, entity formation, reorganization and liquidation, securities law compliance, and also in the areas of employee benefit plans and exempt organizations, real estate, and estate planning.

Mr. Yarnevich has been intensively involved in negotiations, contract and document preparations and formation, merger, dissolution of corporate entities, as well as business acquisitions and dispositions by stock and asset sales. He has also been involved with corporate, partnership and individual tax planning, transaction structuring, tax return preparation, handling Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audits and appeals and obtaining IRS Private Letter Rulings. He has worked with pension plans, profit sharing plans, welfare benefit plans and non-qualified plans of all types, and he has been involved in structuring a number of acquisitions involving the creation and use of Employee Stock Ownership Plans ("ESOPs") as buy-out vehicles. He has also been involved with Section 501(c)(3) and other tax exempt organizations including structuring and planning, preparation of documents, obtaining IRS qualification and obtaining Private Letter Rulings from the IRS concerning unusual tax related issues. He has also been involved with the Securities and Exchange Commission and has been responsible for proxy solicitations 10Q, proxy solicitations 10K and other filings for registered entities.

Mr. Yarnevich is a graduate of The University of Kansas (B.A., 1966) and The University of Kansas School of Law (J.D., 1969) where he was a member of the editorial board of The Kansas Law Review. He is a member of the Missouri Bar.

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