Whitney Mcafee Skala
Partner
Whitney Skala has a broad business and commercial real estate transaction practice. He reviews and prepares purchase and sale agreements, financing documents, leases, title matters, opinion letters, and other agreements germane to business and real estate matters. Mr. Skala also forms and restructures entities, such as limited liability companies, joint ventures, S Corporations, and professional corporations. Mr. Skala earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and his law degree from Georgetown University. He spent the first 11 years of his practice with Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek. Although he was a partner there, Mr. Skala left and founded his own firm to directly deliver legal services to the business and commercial real estate communities. Mr. Skala is the author of several chapters in CEB's "Selecting and Forming Business Entities," and "Buy-Sell Agreements." He was recognized for his writing contributions with the Spirit of CEB award in 2012 at the California State Bar Convention. Mr. Skala was the Secretary (the second-highest position) of the California State Bar Working Group on Legal Opinions Concerning Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies, which concluded its report in early 2017. He currently serves on the CLA's Partnership and LLC committee. In the San Diego community, Mr. Skala is a member of the Board of Trustees of the San Diego Museum of Art.
