Position: Attorney

Alex E. Snyder

Alex Snyder concentrates his practice in estate and trust planning and administration, tax planning, and business law. Alex’s clients range from individuals to families, small business owners and non-profit organizations.

In Alex’s estate and trust practice, he assists his clients in developing their estate and tax plan to best meet their individual, family or business succession planning needs while minimizing tax implications. Alex’s experience includes drafting wills, living wills, advanced directives, revocable trusts, dynasty trusts, irrevocable insurance trusts, irrevocable life insurance trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs), charitable remainder annuity trusts (CRATs), charitable remainder unitrusts (CRUTs), special needs trusts, family limited partnerships, and powers of attorney. He also assists clients with estate and trust administration and the probate process. Alex’s experience includes matters involving Orphan’s Court and fiduciary litigation. Alex also advises his clients on tax planning for both individuals and business owners. Alex is active with the York County Estate Planning Council, the local chapter of the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils.

Alex’s estate planning practice dovetails with his work with small and closely-held business clients. Alex has experience working with his clients on issues such as entity formation and structuring, succession planning, contract review, non-disclosure agreements, shipping and distribution and real estate matters. Alex has gained a unique understanding of the issues facing family-owned and agricultural businesses through his personal experience with his family’s small commercial farm.

Alex works with corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies on the complex tax issues that are inherent in the acquisitions and sales of business assets and interests. He also assists business clients with navigating problems related to state and local taxation involving realty transfer tax, sales tax, employment taxes and income tax withholding.  In addition, Alex works with developers and investors on the tax implications and structuring of projects designed to capture federal and state historic tax credits, new markets tax credits, low-income housing tax credits and renewable energy credits.

Additionally, Alex has assisted non-profit organizations in formation, tax-exempt status filing, and general governance issues.

RECOGNITIONS
  • The Best Lawyers in America®, Closely Held Companies and Family Business Law (2024) Trusts and Estates (2024)
  • Central Penn Business Journal (Forty Under 40, 2014)
  • Pennsylvania Rising Stars (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
PRESENTATIONS
  • Panelist – 2023 York Business Seminar (October 2023)
  • “Why You Can’t Afford to Miss out on a 1031 Exchange”, Wake up with Barley: A Morning on Real Estate (September 2017)
  • “Tax-Exempt Financing: and New Market Tax Credits”, Barley Snyder LendiCon Seminar (March 2016)
  • “Tax Issues That Can Impact Your Business”, Barley Snyder Business Seminar (October 2015)
  • “Business Succession & Wealth Transfer: Considerations of Death, Taxes and Achieving Family Harmony”, Barley Snyder Business Seminar (October 2014)
  • “The Tax Implications of Pennsylvania Companies Doing Business Out of State”, Barley Snyder Business Seminar (October 2012)

Adam D. Boyer

Adam is a member of the firm’s Real Estate, Trusts & Estates and Business practice groups. He concentrates his practice in real estate, estate planning and estate administration, business and agricultural matters. His clients include private individuals, family businesses, large family farms/orchards, member-owned cooperatives, for-profit corporations and municipal entities.

In his real estate practice, Adam serves as legal counsel and as a licensed title insurance agent for Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company. He regularly represents businesses and individuals in both simple and complex real estate purchases and sales ranging from the purchases of single-family homes to the sales of industrial and manufacturing facilities for more than $10 million. Adam also has extensive experience with land preservation and conservation organizations. He has worked with landowners, non-profit land trusts and governmental agencies to preserve dozens of properties and thousands of acres of land. Prior to practicing law, Adam worked at the Land Conservancy of Adams County where he became well-versed in many methods of land preservation.

In the area of estate planning and administration, Adam assists his clients with a variety of matters ranging from the preparation of basic estate planning documents such as wills and powers of attorney to the administration of multi-million dollar estates. He frequently works with financial advisors, business consultants and accountants to create transition plans for family businesses and to craft estate and wealth plans for agricultural clients.  

As a seventh-generation Adams County resident, Adam grew up on a family farm and has a strong commitment to the local community. He volunteers with numerous non-profit organizations and charities throughout the area, currently serving on the board of directors of Main Street Gettysburg as treasurer, the United Way of Adams County, the Adams County Bar Association, the Adams County Bar Foundation, Mid-Penn Legal Services and the York Springs Historical Society. Outside the firm, Adam enjoys traveling to national parks and following Penn State athletics.

RECOGNITIONS
  • Schreyer Honors Scholar, Pennsylvania State University
  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America, Closely Held Companies and Family Business Law (2024)
MEMBERSHIPS
  • Adams County Bar Association
  • Pennsylvania Bar Association
PRESENTATIONS
  • “Development Considerations in Multifamily Housing”, Wake Up With Barley: A Morning on Real Estate Seminar (May 2024)
  • “Ag Issues and Leaders,” panelist, AgChoice Farm Credit
  • Frequent speaker at civic clubs and organizations about estate planning matters

Abby Medin Tucker

Abby is an attorney in the firm’s Business, Real Estate and Transportation, Logistics & Trade groups. In her business practice, Abby advises clients on all aspects of their business, ranging from entity selection and formation to succession planning. Abby counsels public and private entities — including closely held and family-owned businesses — on mergers, acquisitions, corporate governance, shareholder buyouts, and a variety of other transactional matters. She also regularly engages with clients on general business issues including contract drafting, review and negotiation.

A large portion of Abby’s practice is assisting clients with mergers and acquisitions, including both stock and asset transactions, as well as reorganizations.  Abby’s work in the mergers & acquisitions arena touches on many different industry sectors, including in particular, companies in the technology, health care, manufacturing and professional service sectors. Abby also works frequently with private equity investors as part of her mergers and acquisitions practice. Abby has actively worked on a wide variety of deals and structures, including complex earn-outs and management buy-outs. 

In her real estate practice, Abby focuses on the areas of planning and executing real estate transactions. She advises clients on the acquisition, financing, and disposition of commercial and residential properties. Abby has extensive experience negotiating commercial lease agreements. Abby has also counseled clients on various property tax assessment and exemption issues.

In her transportation and trade practice, Abby delivers sophisticated and practical advice to clients in a broad range of industries on both domestic and international regulatory and commercial matters, with the aim of minimizing supply chain disruptions and avoiding costly penalties, sanctions and shipping delays.

Before joining the firm, Abby clerked for Chief Judge Leonard P. Stark of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. Abby also previously practiced environmental law, where she represented clients in administrative negotiations with government agencies, advised clients regarding compliance and permitting under federal and state environmental regulations and assisted with litigation of environmental claims.

Abby and her family live in Hershey and enjoy spending much of their free time in its family-friendly hot spots.

PRESENTATIONS
  • “Transition or Sell: What to Do With Your Family Business” 2022 Smart Business Dealmakers Conference in Philadelphia (September 2022)
  • “Global Trade Gridlock,” Central Pa Financial Executives Institute Chapter (February 2022)
  • “Key Terms in Commercial Leases and How They Can Hold Up Your Deal,” Greater Harrisburg Association of REALTORS Commercial Council (April 2018)
RECOGNITIONS
  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America, Closely Held Companies and Family Business Law (2024)

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