Eliot S. Nahigian - Fresno, CA

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California
    J.D.
    Honors: cum laude

• Non Legal Education

  • California State University, Fresno
    B.S.
    Honors: summa cum laude
    Major: Accounting

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner

Representative Cases

• Real estate acquisitions and refinancings for a local family and leasing of the real estate to their closely held corporation and unrelated tenants
• Sale of a sole proprietorship to a New York Stock Exchange listed company
• Sale of a decedent’s interest in a food processing business and the real property used in the business
• Transfer of family limited partnership interests to second and third generation family members by sales and gifts, including substantial valuation discounts
• IRC §1031 exchanges of investment real estate
• Sale of a family farm from father to son
• Independent representation of a beneficiary in a probate estate of over $10 million
• Representation of co-executors in a complicated probate administration involving eight remainder beneficiaries
• Representation of co-trustees in trust administration involving over 90 beneficiaries
• Sale of an established family-owned grocery business to second generation family members
• Estate planning transactions involving continuing the business with some family members and provision for other family members not involved in the business
• Formation of a corporation with four shareholders and the purchase of a convenience store

Bar Admissions

• California, 1979
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1980
• U.S. Tax Court, 1980
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of California

Other Affiliations

• California State Bar Association (Real Property Law; Taxation; Trust and Estates Sections)
• Fresno County Bar Association (Member, Business Law, Estate Planning and Real Property Law Sections)
• California Society of Certified Public Accountants