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This may be cliché, but I became a lawyer because I love helping people save money and make money. In the complex world of corporate and personal litigation, it is vital to have counsel that you can trust. I have earned the loyalty of my clients by offering personalized attention tempered with solid legal advice and strategy. For the past three years in a row, I have been selected to the Superlawyers Southwest Rising Stars list, a distinction granted to no more than 2.5% of lawyers in Arizona. In addition, this year I was selected as one of Arizona's Finest Lawyers. Just recently, I was also rated AV by , the highest rating a lawyer can receive.When a business needs a lawyer, cost can play a large part in selection. Having represented small to medium sized businesses since 2004, I recognize the necessity to focus on the bottom line. Businesses priority should be to grow revenue, and legal troubles can certainly stand in the way. Each case or issue I work on starts with a conversation to determine the client's desired end result. Understanding and listening are crucial pieces to creating a successful legal strategy that resolves the issue as quickly as possible within budget. Above all, I leverage my experience in commercial litigation to create positive outcomes on behalf of my clients.My broad background (spanning commercial litigation in a wide variety of matters including commercial real estate, construction, breach of contract, zoning and regulatory matters, employer and employee relations, contract negotiations, commercial debt, and intentional torts), ensures a single landing pad for small and medium sized businesses. By nurturing long term relationships with my clients, I am able to minimize costs while providing expedient legal solutions.Specialties:Versed in both business law and general litigation, I use a forceful approach based on sound legal precedent to swiftly conclude settlement discussions and produce a winning verdict at trial. I am licensed to practice in the following:• All Arizona State Courts• The U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona• The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Sonia is a Pittsburgh native. Sonia’s practice focuses, business, tax and estate planning, as well as commercial secured and unsecured lending, and state and federal taxation. Sonia also assists clients with complex business transactions, entity formation, mergers and acquisitions, employment and operating agreements.Sonia’s full service estate planning practice includes the preparation of revocable and irrevocable wills and trusts, durable powers of attorney, health care powers of attorney and living wills, life insurance trusts, charitable trusts, succession plans for closely held businesses, family limited partnerships and minor’s trusts. Sonia also specializes in complex secured and mezzanine financing transactions and associated business formation and planning.Sonia has extensive experience organizing and structuring joint venture relationships around real estate and real estate financing transactions, including transactions involving limited liability companies, corporations and partnerships, and the preparation of operating agreements, partnership agreements, shareholder agreements for large and small business – from start-ups to established institutional clients and publicly traded entities.Sonia’s annual transaction volume regularly exceeds $250,000,000 a year, and her experience includes highly complex real estate and business acquisitions, asset-based and unsecured financing and debt restructuring.Sonia is a Partner at Shein Phanse Adkins, P.C., and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California in 2000. She graduated from Golden Gate University School of Law in 2004 and earned her LL.M. in taxation from Golden Gate University in 2005. Sonia has an AV Rating® from Martindale- Hubbell and has been recognized as a Rising Star in the area of taxation by Southwest Super Lawyers.®

Mr. Martin practices in the business planning and transaction areas.  He has extensive legal experience across diverse industries and in a wide variety of business transaction areas.

Mr. Amar is a Scottsdale personal injury attorney practicing law out of the Scottsdale law firm of Amar Esq. PLLC. Mr. Amar is the founder and managing attorney at the firm. He built the firm on the building blocks of client satisfaction and effective attorney representation. The firm's utmost priority is to deliver effective lawyering for its clients, and at the same time, keep its clients involved and engaged throughout the entire process. Mr. Amar received his Juris Doctor Degree from (ASU) the Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, and received his Bachelor of Arts from (UCLA) the University of California Los Angeles. Mr. Amar's primary practice areas include serious and catastrophic personal injuries, wrongful death, and civil litigation.

Martin R. Galbut brings decades of counseling and litigation experience to the firm. He combines a distinct blend of corporate, securities, banking, real estate, antitrust, intellectual property, and finance counseling and litigation experience with tenacious thoroughness and unmatched client service. Martin represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a broad range of cases involving securities, banking and finance, labor and employment, corporate governance, intellectual property, antitrust, real estate, environmental, regulatory, and health care matters.. Martin is widely regarded as one of the leading business attorneys in Arizona. His excellence has been recognized as such on many occasions by The Best Lawyers in America®, Southwest Super Lawyers®, Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in America, Legal Leaders, AZ Business Magazine, The Phoenix Business Journal, Phoenix Magazine, Arizona Executive Magazine, and AZ Big Media. He was named Best Lawyers 2019 Phoenix Lawyer of the Year for Litigation – Banking and Finance; 2017 Phoenix Lawyer of the Year for Corporate Governance Law; and 2015 Phoenix Lawyer of the Year for Corporate Governance Law.. Because of his extensive experience and broad background across the wide range of legal practices areas implicated in running a successful business, Martin has the unique ability to provide fractional general counsel services in a manner that takes into account all relevant considerations – monetary and otherwise.. Martin's efficacy as an attorney and reputation for providing counsel in an ethical way have engendered great respect for him within the Arizona legal community. This respect is recognized by, among other things, his receipt of the Martindale-Hubbell® AV Preeminent rating (the highest possible peer review rating in legal ability and ethical standards) for the last 36 years (1984–2020).. Martin has been a lecturer and moderator for the State Bar of Arizona’s continuing education programs and a frequent panelist at professional conferences on securities, commercial real estate, and intellectual property law. He has also published numerous articles and seminar materials in the areas of securities law, commercial real estate litigation, arbitration, and mediation.. Appointed by the Governor of Arizona, Martin served on the Governor’s Task Force on Urban Air Quality. Appointed by the Mayor of Phoenix, Martin served on the City of Phoenix Environmental Quality Commission. For several years, Martin also chaired the Arizona State Air Pollution Control Hearing Board. He has served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association (AAA), National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).. Martin graduated from Northwestern University in 1968. He earned his law degree cum laude from Northwestern University Law School in 1971, where he was an Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review, a Clarion DeWitt Hardy Scholar, a Francis S. Kosmerl Foundation Scholar, and a recipient of the first 'Student Who Contributed the Most to the Intellectual Life of Northwestern University' award.. In addition to the law, Martin’s passions are his family, international travel, landscape painting, and collecting art and antiques. In 2019, he won First Place in Painting in the Arizona Bar’s Creative Arts Competition. Martin won this same award in two prior years. His works were most recently featured in the Arizona Attorney magazine in May 2019.

Mark is an avid sailor having had the opportunity to sail in the British Virgin Islands, Hawaii, San Diego and the lakes in the Arizona desert.  He was instrumental in forming the Arizona Sailing Foundation, a 501(c)(3) educational organization devoted to teaching sailing to underprivileged children.

Keith R. Galbut leads Galbut Beabeau’s corporate, construction, real estate, and outside general counsel practices. He is also the Founder and President of ADVOCATE – Residential Construction Advisors, a leading residential construction advisory and owners’ representation firm. He has extensive experience in corporate and real estate transactions, including matters of corporate formation and governance and the negotiation of commercial contracts, construction agreements, employment agreements, license agreements, leases, mergers, acquisitions, and sales of businesses. He often protects his clients’ rights and advances their interests in business, construction, and real estate disputes, whether through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or litigation.. A community leader in business and law, Keith served as an Adjunct Professor of International Business Law at the Thunderbird School of Global Management for over ten years and served as Chairman and President of the Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations. He was honored by Global Chamber as “Global Business Service Provider of the Year” and with the “PCFR Visionary Award” by the Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations. He is regularly recognized with AV Preeminent and Platinum Client Champion designations by Martindale-Hubbell®; has been recognized by Southwest Super Lawyers® and The Best Lawyers in America® in business, entrepreneurship, family business, and corporate law; and has been highlighted by AZ Business Magazine, Arizona Executive Magazine, and Phoenix Magazine as one of Arizona's leading lawyers including as a Phoenix Top Lawyer in 2023. His leadership and commitment to excellence is also evidenced by his 2021 recognition by the Phoenix Business Journal as one of the Valley’s “Most Admired Leaders,” and the 2023 and 2024 Sun Devil 100 Award presented by the Arizona State Alumni Association, which recognizes leaders of organizations from around the world who demonstrate innovation, growth, and an entrepreneurial spirit. In 2023 and 2024, ADVOCATE – Residential Construction Advisors was honored to be selected for the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in the United States.. Keith’s passions are family, international travel, community organizations, residential construction and architecture, and making a positive impact on his community through leadership. He currently serves as a Trustee on the Scottsdale Arts Board of Trustees, a Member of Greater Phoenix Leadership, and on the National Small Business Association Leadership Council.

Jeff combines his unique experience as both a lawyer and a businessman to fashion well reasoned and practical solutions in counseling and advising his clients. He is sensitive to the business considerations that are important to a business client and understands the operational and financial aspects of running a business. He is admitted to practice law in both Arizona and Texas and has focused his practice on business law matters including representation in the areas of entity formation, structured capital raises and financings including private placements of securities, business combination transactions, and other general company business transactions including contractual and employment matters. His practice also includes wealth and estate planning and probate administration.

I am the entrepreneurial principal in my Scottsdale, Arizona based firm, which I founded on January 01, 1994.  My boutique law practice is dedicated to rendering quality and cost-effective legal services in the areas of transactional commercial and residential real estate law and general corporate and business law.  Over the course of my 35+ year legal career, I have represented both sophisticated institutional clients with a national presence as well as clients who own small and medium sized businesses that are concentrated within various aspects of the real estate field.  I also handle life-cycle events from inception through dissolution for a wide variety of other, non-real estate related businesses, industries and trades.. I have a particular interest and expertise in assisting local Arizona-based companies with their transactional real estate, corporate and business legal needs.  I have been a proud member of Local First Arizona since 2011 and have provided legal services to a number of unique and creative businesses through that affiliation.  I have been fortunate to work on  several "adaptive reuse" real estate projects that have already transformed and will continue to transform the older parts of the midtown and downtown portions of Phoenix.. My years spent in Chicago working on sophisticated real estate and corporate deals at a major national law firm, when combined with my years spent in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area running my own law firm have matured me into a highly-skilled, experienced and practical lawyer that is capable of rendering quality legal services at cost-effective rates.

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David Shein is a Board Certified Real Estate Specialist and, as a founding member of Shein Phanse Adkins P.C. , David Shein brings more than 25 years of substantive legal and business experience to the representation of the firm’s clients. David focuses on the representation of established and emerging companies and financial institutions in all facets of real estate acquisition, development, financing and leasing, including asset based lending, development planning and entitlement, venture formation, due diligence, strategic business planning, capital acquisition and financing, complex contract negotiations and mergers and acquisitions.In the areas of real estate and commercial (asset based) financing, David represents both public and privately held companies and financial institutions in complex multi-state transactions throughout Arizona and the Southwest involving asset acquisition, development and specialized equity and non-equity financing formats, include securitized credit and related facilities, and traditional asset based lending. David also has extensive experience representing landlords, tenants and lenders in all aspects of commercial leasing. David represents developers and lenders in the acquisition, development, leasing, financing and/or sale of office buildings, shopping centers, multi-family projects, master planned communities, resort/golf properties, industrial properties, and single-family residential developments.In addition to representing clients in connection with core real estate, real estate development and related financing and M&A activities, David handles a wide range of real estate related matters including loan enforcement, foreclosure, secured (UCC Article 9) transactions, low income housing (Section 42) tax credit transactions and Section 1031 exchanges. David is also an experienced mediator and maintains an active and successful Alternative Dispute Resolution practice.David earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration (with distinction) from the University of Arizona in 1984, with a double major in accounting and corporate finance. He graduated from Arizona State University College of Law (cum laude) in 1987. David is a Real Estate Specialist, certified by the State Bar of Arizona – Board of Legal Specialization, holds the highest rating (AV) from the Martindale- Hubbell attorney rating service and has been consistently named as a top real estate lawyer by Best Lawyers®, Chambers USA® and Southwest Super Lawyers®. David is also a Judge Pro Tem of the Maricopa County Superior Court and a Member of the State Bar of Arizona Board of Legal Specialization.

Charles Van Cott has a broad family law practice, ranging from multi-million-dollar complex divorces to divorces involving only the division of debt and everything in between. Mr. Van Cott also routinely handles matters involving children, including paternity actions, dissolution proceedings involving children, post-dissolution proceedings involving modifications to existing custody (now legal decision-making), parenting time and support orders and both sides of actions seeking enforcement of such orders. He is well-versed in spousal maintenance issues, both as they arise in dissolution proceedings and in later actions to modify, extend or terminate spousal maintenance awards. He also has participated in the drafting and negotiation of numerous pre-marital and post-marital agreements.. In addition to his family law practice, Mr. Van Cott frequently appears before the Arizona Court of Appeals, representing litigants in family court, probate and civil matters. Mr. Van Cott has briefed and argued appeals. He also has successfully steered litigants through the Court of Appeals’ Settlement Conference Program, almost always enhancing the results his client obtained in the trial court before the appeal.. As a general matter, Mr. Van Cott believes in mediation as preferable to litigation in most instances. He strives to solve his clients’ issues in the most efficient manner possible, strives to be “solution-oriented” but also acts as an able advocate in court in cases not capable of settlement.. Mr. Van Cott received his Bachelor’s Degree in economics from Whittier College in 1981. He was only one of two students in his class to graduate with highest honors.. Mr. Van Cott obtained his legal education at Stanford Law School, graduating in 1984. While at Stanford, Mr. Van Cott was selected to join the Stanford Law Review, serving as the managing editor in 1983-1984. He graduated in the top ten percent of his class, resulting in his induction into the Order of the Coif.. After law school, Mr. Van Cott spent a year clerking for the Honorable Joseph T. Sneed on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. He wrote bench memoranda and opinions for the panels to which his Judge was assigned. Judge Sneed taught him a great deal about legal analysis and writing. The Judge edited the first opinion he asked Mr. Van Cott to write to such an extent that the end product had no resemblance to the initial draft. Judge Sneed published the final opinion Mr. Van Cott wrote for him with no changes at all.. Mr. Van Cott began his law practice at Brown & Bain (now Perkins Coie) in Phoenix. He started in 1985, became a partner in 1991, left the firm in 1996 to spend two years working as Vice President and General Counsel to Sirius Publishing, a local consumer publishing company, before returning to Brown & Bain as a partner in 1998. Throughout his practice, Mr. Van Cott focused on corporate, securities and transactional matters. Among other experiences, he represented a Fortune 100 company divesting divisions in Kansas City and overseas. He also represented a publicly traded computer peripherals manufacturer sold to another Fortune 100 company for $250 million in late 1999.. Mr. Van Cott joined another technology company, ultimately known as iPhysicianNet Inc., in early 2000, where he worked until mid-2003. iPhysicianNet developed a video conferencing network connecting almost 7,000 primary care physicians across the United States with many of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the United States. He served as Executive Vice President for Business Development and General Counsel. While at iPhysicianNet, Mr. Van Cott working with outside counsel represented the company in a $46 million venture capital transaction – the largest in Arizona history at the time. He also helped manage relationships with the major pharmaceutical companies in the company’s network, supervised outside counsel in connection with regulatory compliance for the benefit of the company’s pharmaceutical company and physician clients and explored partnerships to leverage the company’s network of physicians.. Mr. Van Cott left iPhysicianNet in 2003 to join his current partner, Laurence B. Stevens. They launched the firm of Stevens & Van Cott, PLLC in 2004.. Mr. Van Cott still maintains a corporate and business practice, focusing on entity formation, corporate governance and transactional matters. His considerable corporate experience gives him a unique perspective and skill-set for handling the many family court matters that present business issues. It gives him a competitive advantage not shared by others lacking a comparable background.. Mr. Van Cott has held an “AV Preeminent” 5.0/5.0 rating from Martindale Hubbell®, the nation's leading attorney peer review service, for over 15 years.