Our attorneys provide a broad range of legal experience and practical knowledge in all facets related to real property transactions. We represent a wide range of clients who are involved in a vast array of real estate transactions, including residential sales and purchases, commercial transactions, tax deferred (1031) exchanges, condominium development and conversions, investment, leasing, and operation of real estate. Our clients include homeowners, investors, owners and lessees of commercial, retail, office and industrial real estate, residential and commercial developers, real estate brokers and mortgage lenders.

Residential Real Estate

We represent clients in all stages of the transaction, from negotiating the terms of the contract through the closing. Throughout, the counsel, guidance and assistance of our attorneys help our clients protect their interests and understand the business, tax, and legal implications pertaining to the transaction. We play a vital role in the negotiation, documentation, pre­pa­ra­tion and closing phases of real estate transactions to ensure that the clients’ interests are at all times protected. Our understanding of our clients’ con­cerns and issues lends to our ability to find creative solutions to their most sophisticated real estate problems.

Commercial Real Estate

Extensive expertise in matters related to commercial real estate, and a strong finance and business background is what we bring to the table when re­pre­sent­ing our clients in commercial real estate transactions. Our areas of concentration include: sales and acquisitions of commercial real estate; de­vel­op­ment; real estate lending; corporate and tax matters related to real estate ownership and transfers of ownership; commercial leasing; and loan work­-outs.

The attorneys of Skoubis Alikakos LLC are trusted advisors and consultants for small to medium-sized businesses in many different industries. We assist individuals, corporations, limited liability companies and other business entities with all types of business agreements, contracts, transactions and issues, drawing on our broad knowledge and experience.

Our attorneys can navigate you through the legal challenges that you may face as a business owner. We offer proactive solutions to general business and legal issues that can arise. We routinely structure and organize business entities of all types, including corporations and limited liability companies, and prepare the appropriate organizational documents.

Additionally, we assist our clients with the structure, negotiation and closing of business transactions, such as the acquisition, sale and merger of businesses. We provide a cost-effective and practical representation of corporations, limited liability companies, investors and entrepreneurs. Our attorneys take an active role in understanding the nuances of our clients’ industry to provide knowledgeable and practical counsel in all areas where we are engaged.

We provide close, personal service to families and their investment and pro­fes­sion­al advisors to formulate comprehensive estate plans for the transfer of family wealth over several generations. Proper planning does more than just provide for the transfer of assets at death. We work with our clients to create unique estate and business plans that preserve assets and minimize taxes, both during their lives and, often, for many years beyond.

A complete estate and business plan may involve not only the execution of wills and trusts but also the establishment of corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and charitable foundations and the transfer of assets to those entities to implement a plan. We also work with other family advisors, including accountants, financial planners, stockbrokers, insurance agents and other attorneys to ensure a proper and complete analysis and development of a plan which is tailor-made for our client’s individual needs and concerns.

We work with clients and personal representatives to ensure that all aspects of estate administration come to resolution as quickly as possible. We understand the need to handle these matters delicately and promptly, and we offer the proper guidance to our clients throughout this complicated, yet necessary process.

Whether or not the decedent had a Will, the primary way to transfer assets from the name of the deceased to the beneficiaries is to go through the probate process. Probate, the court’s oversight of the distribution of the estate’s assets, is generally needed to gain access to bank accounts or to re-title real property. This process may seem simple, but it can often touch on sensitive family issues and can become difficult to manage.