Butler Snow attorney John Shoemaker has been elected to the Steering Committee for the STEP International Client Special Interest Group for 2025. The International Client Global Special Interest Group (SIG) focuses on the needs of clients with complex planning needs around the globe.
STEP is a global professional body, with more than 21,000 members comprising lawyers, accountants, trustees and other practitioners that help families plan for their futures. Their mission is to inspire confidence in families planning their assets across generations by setting and upholding high professional standards, informing public policy, promoting education, and connecting practitioners globally to share knowledge and best practice.
Shoemaker is a member of Butler Snow’s Business Services group and is based in the firm’s London office. He has more than 30 years of experience in legal and regulatory compliance and is a common law attorney with an educational emphasis on taxation, trusts and estate planning. Shoemaker also has extensive experience in ensuring multi-jurisdictional compliance for product offerings (working with outside counsel and adapting products for sale in relevant jurisdictions), including product management skills to direct complex products from concept to fully operational status.
Shoemaker is the current Chair of the International Tax Committee of the American Bar Association’s International Law Section. He is also a member of the Society of Trust and Estates Practitioners (holding its TEP designation), the Singapore Trustees Association (serving on its Technical Committee), and the Kansas Bar Association (serving on its Board of Governors). Shoemaker also previously served on the STEP Singapore Branch Committee in 2020-2021.
Shoemaker earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas, his Juris Doctor from Washburn University School of Law and his Master of Laws in Taxation from the University of Alabama School of Law.
