Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Starting a business requires thorough planning. Our firm assists business owners in the formation of legally sound business entities and helps entrepreneurs devise business strategies that help them achieve their goals. We advise on the business startup and formation process including issues related to selection of entity type and jurisdiction. We also consult with business owners and draft shareholder agreements or partnership agreements as part of the entity formation process.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Business Disputes
  His legal counsel is sound and he is able to utilize his extensive knowledge, experience and insight while advising clients in these areas: Estate Planning and Administration (including Probate), Business Law, Contract Law, and Real Estate Law. Nate is disciplined, hard-working, fair and efficient, providing his clients a legal experience in which they feel well-represented and highly satisfied.

Employment Law

• Employment Contract
  Our office can facilitate the merger with or acquisition of corporations and other business entities, joint ventures, spin-offs and leveraged buyouts. We represent business owners, professionals, financial institutions, doctors’ and dentists’ offices, service providers and manufacturers. Our goal is to work with you to reduce your exposure to risk while maximizing the value of your interest. We can draft initial proposals, bid packages, letters of intent, buy-sell agreements, and master and ancillary transaction documents. We will also help you consider the financing, whether it is an all-share deal, a cash buyout, asset or stock purchase, life insurance trust or installment plan. The buying company in a merger or acquisition may need to lease or purchase existing real estate and/or equipment from the selling company. We can draft or review leases and other contracts with your best interests in mind. Another important aspect of acquiring a company is deciding how to combine employees and management. We can draft or negotiate employment agreements as you blend management or corporate cultures.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  We are a full service real estate law firm handling transactions within the Phoenix Metro area. We can assist you with a wide range of real estate matters from the purchase of raw land to the sale of a developed property and everything in between. We can help you take your project from start to finish.
• Real Estate Transactions

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  “Nate helped me to get a clear picture on how estate planning works. He and his team took the time to educate me and walk me through the steps of the plan that they set up for me and my family. Thank you, Nate!”
• Wills
• Trusts
  At The Law Office of Nathan A. Skinner, PLC, we are able to properly prepare many types of trusts, depending on your individual needs and goals. A living trust, which is created while you are alive, may be used to avoid probate proceedings and can have certain tax advantages as well. This type of trust can be either revocable or irrevocable, and we will discuss this with you in detail. Our firm can fully discuss with you the benefits of a trust and how it can serve you and your family. Determining whether you should have a will or trust can be fully explained to you as well.
• Power of Attorney
  An important part of estate planning is preparing documents to give another person (your “Agent”) power to make decisions for you, as well as act in your name, in the event you are unable to do so for yourself. A Durable Power of Attorney gives your Agent power regarding financial decisions and actions, and a Health Care Power of Attorney outlines your wishes regarding your health care and end-of-life decisions. Our office will prepare these documents for you, while helping you determine which specific powers you want to give your Agent with regard to your finances and your health care. These documents can be provided to your banking institutions and your health care providers, in order to prove such designated powers.
• Probate
  We know that understanding probate procedures and undergoing the process can be trying after the death of a loved one. Fundamentally, probate is a legal procedure by which the estate of a deceased person is managed. It starts with a petition to the court to open the proceedings and the assignment of a Personal Representative to execute the wishes of the deceased in accordance with Arizona probate law. Next, official notices are sent to interested parties regarding the estate and any hearings to resolve matters are conducted. Once all debts of the estate are paid and the remainder is properly distributed, a petition to discharge is filed and the estate can be closed. The theory of probate is simple but the reality can frequently be complex and contested. This is where we offer our help and successful experience to you and your family.

Finance Law

• Tax Law