Mr. Malec is Board Certified in Wills, Trusts & Estates by the Florida Bar Board of Legal Specialization. He handles all aspects of estate and succession planning, including the implementation of wills, trusts, business entities and sophisticated estate planning techniques to protect and transfer wealth among individuals and families while minimizing income, gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes.

Mr. Malec also handles all aspects of probate and trust administration, including advising fiduciaries throughout the administrative process and representing beneficiaries seeking to assert their rights in an estate or trust.

Mr. Mead is one of the founding shareholders of Dean Mead. He has 50 years of experience representing physicians and medical entities with business matters, including employment agreements, buy-sell agreements, negotiation of hospital contracts and related agreements involving physicians and healthcare relationships. In addition, he assists clients with employee benefits matters, including retirement plans.

In 2007, Dean Mead supported a plan by the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine to provide full scholarships for all 41 students in its inaugural class. Dean Mead endowed the first scholarship, naming it for Robert W. Mead, Jr. It serves as a fitting commemoration of the long standing tradition of outstanding legal service that has been provided to the medical community by Mr. Mead.

Michael Minton is Chair of Dean Mead’s Agribusiness and Solar Energy Industry Teams. He represents family businesses with an emphasis on generationally-owned agricultural businesses. He assists with their organizational structure, federal income, estate and gift tax planning and business succession planning. He offers his clients extensive experience focusing on tax issues related to agribusiness, as well as water resource issues and new innovative uses of land for value -added propositions.

Mr. Minton’s clients receive the benefit of his more than 35 years of experience in Florida agri-business and interaction with agencies that regulate the utilization and optimization of their assets and business opportunities. Included among his multiple business and civic activities related to his professional experience, Mr. Minton is a member of the Water Resource Assessment Team (WRAT) of the Central Florida Water Initiative, and he is a past Vice-Chair of the Governing Board for the South Florida Water Management District. He continues to be involved in water-related issues across the State of Florida.

In addition to the aforementioned, Mr. Minton is Immediate Past Chair of the Tax Section of The Florida Bar. He also is a member of the Board of Directors for the Orlando Economic Partnership, University of Florida Foundation, Florida Tax Watch and Florida Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trustees for Martin Memorial Health System. Mr. Minton is past Chair of the Florida Alumni Tax Advisory Committee for the University of Florida Law Center Association, Inc., as well as past Chair of its Board of Trustees. He also is a former Board Chairman for the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Foundation, Inc.

Nicky Mooney is a shareholder and employment law attorney in Dean Mead’s Litigation department. She represents individuals and businesses of all sizes in business litigation and employment related issues. Her representation includes drafting employment and severance contracts, drafting handbooks and policies, and counseling and representing employers in litigation regarding all types of employee actions, rights and obligations, including, but not limited to, wage and hour questions and disputes, FMLA issues, claims of discrimination, retaliation, theft of trade secrets, and all other manner of employment related litigation under Florida and federal law. Ms. Mooney also addresses claims regarding restrictive covenants including non-compete agreements, trade secrets litigation and protection of confidential information.

In addition, Ms. Mooney is involved in all areas of complex business litigation in both state and federal courts ranging from simple contract disputes to issues arising from the dissolution of a business entity and derivative litigation. Ms. Mooney has state and federal courtroom experience in both jury and non-jury trials. She also has experience in administrative proceedings with the EEOC, Florida Commission on Human Relations and Orlando Human Relations Department.

John Moore is both a Certified Public Accountant and a Florida Supreme Court certified Circuit Civil Mediator. He focuses his practice in the areas of estate planning and administration and other personal wealth management issues. John is a frequent Continuing Legal Education and motivational speaker. He presents programs on practice management, personal development, charitable planning, as well as financial, taxation and estate planning matters to bar associations, law schools, law firms and charitable organizations throughout the United States.

A long-time member of the Vero Beach community, Mr. Moore was raised on the Treasure Coast and has been involved with a variety of organizations serving the community. His service to the community has been recognized with multiple community-wide service awards, including the Florida Bar President’s Award and the Florida Rural Legal Services Award for Pro Bono Service in the 19th Circuit. He currently serves as an Aircraft Commander in the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.

He is an AV-rated lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell and has been named to Florida Trend Magazine’s Legal Elite in Wills, Trusts and Estates.

Mr. Naberhaus is a Shareholder in the Viera office and his practice consists mostly of estate planning, transfer tax planning, estate and trust administration and asset protection planning. He is certified by the Florida Bar as an expert in the area of Wills, Trusts and Estates, and has extensive experience working with high net worth individuals. He also practices in the areas of business succession planning, charitable planning, guardianship and probate and trust litigation.

A member of the firm’s Real Estate and Financial Institution Teams, Jennifer represents large national institutional lenders and non-banks in complex financial commercial finance and real estate transactions. Her experience includes: mezzanine debt financing, syndicated loan transactions, construction lending, multi-family developments, loan workouts, commercial leasing, and multistate transactions. Prior to joining Dean Mead, Jennifer was…

An Attorney and Certified Public Accountant, Steve’s career has been founded on estate planning, taxation, and corporate law. As a CPA, he holds a unique understanding of transactional complexities often required in multi-state matters. He was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Florida in 1976. Steve was also admitted to practice before the United…