SIMON SIDAMON-ERISTOFF
Of Counsel
simon@kalbianhagerty.com
Simon Sidamon-Eristoff is Of Counsel to Kalbian
Hagerty LLP. He specializes in the representation of
nonprofit organizations.
Mr. Sidamon-Eristoff has served as General
Counsel to American Farmland Trust since 1998. He is
responsible for
all of the organization's legal affairs, including land
conservation transactions, tax and estate planning matters,
legislative analysis, employment law matters, litigation,
and nonprofit corporate governance.
A nationally recognized
expert in the land conservation field, Mr. Sidamon-Eristoff
has worked for nonprofit organizations,
government agencies, and private landowners in connection
with a wide variety of conservation, real estate
and tax matters in over 20 years of private and public
law
practice.
His experience in conservation includes 8 years work
as an in-house attorney at two other national nonprofit
organizations,
the Trust for Public Land and the Rails to Trails Conservancy.
As
Regional Counsel at the Trust for Public Land, Mr. Sidamon-Eristoff
was responsible for legal matters throughout
a 20-state region, including land preservation transactions,
tax planning, subdivisions, financing, litigation, leasing,
and nonprofit corporate matters. He also directed the
Trust's New York State program for a year. He negotiated
numerous
acquisitions of property and conservation easements from
private landowners, and was responsible for conveying
these interests to various government agencies, including
the
National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, and state
and local units of government.
As Conservancy Counsel at
the Rails to Trails Conservancy, Mr. Sidamon-Eristoff
initiated a highly successful land
preservation program focused on the acquisition of out-of
service railway corridors. Under his direction, this
program preserved more than 900 miles of out-of-service
rail corridor
for use as public trails in eighteen transactions over
four years.
Mr. Sidamon-Eristoff spent the first four years
of his career at the New York law firms of Lord, Day & Lord
and Coudert Brothers, specializing in real estate matters.
He served as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary
of Energy for energy conservation and renewable energy
in the first Bush administration from 1991 to 1993.
Mr.
Sidamon-Eristoff holds degrees from Princeton University
and Columbia Law School. He serves on the board of various
nonprofit institutions, including American Friends of
Georgia, Oceana, and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. He
is admitted
to practice in New York and the District of Columbia.
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