Beth Cohn

Beth Cohn

Phoenix, AZ recognized lawyers icon Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2019
Jaburg Wilk PC

19 Best Lawyers awards

Jaburg Wilk PC logo

Awarded Practice Areas

Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law

Biography

Beth is a shareholder at Jaburg Wilk and has been practicing law for more than three decades. She chairs the firm’s Estate Planning and Business Law Department. As both a Tax Specialist certified by the State Bar of Arizona – Arizona Board of Legal Specialization and a Certified Public Accountant, she has a unique expertise in assisting her clients with their estate planning as well as closely held businesses. She has assisted hundreds of families – including ones with substantial assets – with their estate needs ranging from simple estate plans to complex multi-generational gifting plans.

Her expertise and wide range of experience in structuring business entities and succession plans allows her clients to take advantage of tax and business opportunities, as well as protecting the individual business owner’s assets from the reach of creditors. She assists families, closely held businesses’ owners, and individuals by providing succession planning, business planning and estate planning. Whether trusts, wills, powers of attorneys, living wills or healthcare directives, Beth has the skills to help clients preserve the wealth they have created to benefit themselves, their family, and succeeding generations. She has also assisted in formation of (501(c)(3)) non-profits and assisted clients with charitable gifting.

Jaburg Wilk PC

19 Best Lawyers awards

Jaburg Wilk PC logo

Overview

  • Arizona State University, J.D., graduated 1981
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison, B.S., graduated 1973

  • Arizona, 1981.

  • AZCrew, the premier Arizona Association for female real estate professionals - Member
  • Board of Directors of Cancer Support Community of Arizona - Former Member
  • Central Phoenix Womens' Networking Group - Member
  • Finance Committee of Cancer Support Community of Arizona - Member
  • Professional Advisory Committee (PAC), Jewish Community Foundation - Member
  • Professional Advisory Committee to the Arizona Community Foundation - Member
  • Tax Law Advisory Commission for the Arizona State Bar - Member
  • Valley Estate Planners and Central Arizona Estate Planners - Member

  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, District of Arizona.
  • U.S. Tax Court.
  • Arizona, 1981.
  • AZCrew, the premier Arizona Association for female real estate professionals - Member
  • Board of Directors of Cancer Support Community of Arizona - Former Member
  • Central Phoenix Womens' Networking Group - Member
  • Finance Committee of Cancer Support Community of Arizona - Member
  • Professional Advisory Committee (PAC), Jewish Community Foundation - Member
  • Professional Advisory Committee to the Arizona Community Foundation - Member
  • Tax Law Advisory Commission for the Arizona State Bar - Member
  • Valley Estate Planners and Central Arizona Estate Planners - Member
  • Arizona State University, J.D., graduated 1981
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison, B.S., graduated 1973
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, District of Arizona.
  • U.S. Tax Court.

Client Testimonials

Awards & Focus

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
  • Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Tax Law
  • Trusts and Estates
Awards:
  • Phoenix Magazine - Top Lawyer, Tax Law, 2022

  • 2010 Top People to know in Commercial Real Estate
  • Rated AV Preeminent from Martindale-Hubbell
  • Best Lawyers in America- Closely Held Companies and Family Business Law, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Henry Tom Outstanding Tax Attorney Award by the State Bar of Arizona Tax Law Section, 2019

Case History

Cases
  • Beth Cohn represented SL Mesa Realty Owners LLC
Beth Cohn of Jaburg Wilk represented SL Mesa Realty Owners LLC in a ?recent $32.5 million double escrow for an 117,000 square foot back-office project located west of Fiesta Mall in Mesa Arizona. The three building center now known as Centrica was originally a big box retail complex occupied by three major retailers which was retrofitted and leased for back-office operations of a large publicly held consumer finance company.??? In the complicated double escrow transaction SL Mesa Realty Owners LLC was the buyer in the initial transaction and the seller in the second transaction, which closed simultaneously, with financing provided by a $22 million loan from JPMorgan Chase Bank.

Your browser is not fully compatible with our automatic printer friendly formatting.

Please use the print button to print this profile page.

Spinning circle Big letter B