JON MCSHERRY, counsel, has joined Barclay Damon’s Corporate, Tax, and Trusts & Estates practice areas. His primary office location is in Syracuse. McSherry focuses on estate and Medicaid planning, trusts and estates administration, business-succession planning, and tax law. He assists clients with all aspects of trusts and estates, including planning, document drafting and execution, trust funding, administration, accounting and settlement, and Surrogate’s Court litigation. McSherry also advises on business planning, including entity formation, drafting and reviewing corporate documents, succession planning, and business sales. He helps individual and business clients resolve NYS and federal tax liabilities. In addition to being an attorney, McSherry is a certified public accountant.

JOHN P. SIDD, a prominent corporate and commercial real estate attorney, has joined Hancock Estabrook, LLP as a partner. He will be joining Hancock Estabrook’s corporate and real estate departments, concentrating his practice on business law, commercial real estate, and economic development matters. Sidd represents clients in all aspects of their businesses, ranging from daily operations that include contract preparation and negotiations to succession planning and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, he represents New York State economic-development entities, including industrial development agencies and land banks. Sidd also serves as general counsel to the New York Land Bank Association and the Greater Syracuse Land Bank.