Whether you’re a corporate hedge fund purchasing investment property, a small business leasing commercial space, or a developer needing guidance on title and zoning matters, you need a commercial real estate attorney to identify potential legal issues and details you may overlook.  A few recent, representative clients include:

• a small, local developer navigating municipal ordinances and negotiating easements with adjacent property owners,
• a medical practice that expanded to two locations and bought out a partner,  and
• a new veterinary practice that needed advice and counsel concerning its commercial lease.

My approach is distinctive: I personally handle each aspect of your transaction to make sure the representation you receive is efficient, effective, practical, and personal.

My commercial real estate practice covers a variety of matters including:

• Commercial loan closings
• Commercial lease negotiations
• Contract drafting and negotiations
• Title opinions and title insurance
• Easement agreements and boundary disputes
• Zoning and land use
• Quiet title actions
• Property acquisitions and negotiations
• Drafting master deeds, bylaws, and covenants and restrictions
• Creating horizontal property regimes

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Running a business is a challenge that requires entrepreneurs to assume new roles and responsibilities that don’t necessarily align with their skill sets. Let me handle the legal aspects so you can stay focused on growing and protecting your business or nonprofit. I have ongoing relationships with my small business and nonprofit clients because I want them to reach out whenever they need me—for matters big or small. Open, responsive communication allows me to efficiently and effectively counsel them on everyday business matters such as their 501(c)(3) exemption, zoning matters, lease negotiation, buying and selling a business, contracts, and governing documents. Recent representative clients include:

• A company selling multiple restaurant locations
• A minority shareholder in a company seeking advice and counsel concerning outdated governing documents and ownership changes
• Two local nonprofit organizations, one of which has an international reach
• a medical group purchasing organization expanding into South Carolina,
• a local small business owner breaking into the bed and breakfast business, and
• a regional contractor and home builder expanding into South Carolina.  

I help businesses evolve and protect their assets by offering:

• Asset purchases and asset purchase agreements
• Guidance on entity selection
• Assistance with governmental filing requirements such as zoning ordinances, licensing, and permits
• Advice on initial or existing governing documents that require drafting, reviewing, or revising
• Education on nonprofit matters such as obtaining and maintaining 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status
• Help with leases and contracts that require drafting, reviewing, and negotiating with third parties
• Guidance on dissolution and winding up
• Business succession planning

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It is essential to prepare for the unexpected. To protect my clients’ interests and relieve the legal burdens that may come with the passing of a loved one, I offer customized, professional advice and counsel to assist with trust and estate planning. My goal is to provide you with as much clarity and understanding as you need so that you feel comfortable making informed decisions about the work I would do for you and the plan we will put in place to accomplish your goals.  Some recent, representative clients include:

• a successful local business owner who needs to ensure both his family and his businesses are protected and have a succession plan,
• a family that owns multiple pieces of real estate property, including some out of state
• a widow who owns numerous businesses interests and several pieces of real estate
• a family with minor children, including one adopted child

I offer a full range of trust and estate planning services including:

• Review and analysis of existing plans
• Drafting wills, trusts, and powers of attorney
• Business succession planning
• Family limited partnerships
• Planning for Minor Children
• Pet trusts
• Planning for non-traditional/blended families

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Serving as an executor of an estate or as a trustee of a trust can be a confusing, overwhelming, time-consuming task – particularly when combined with a life event such as the passing of a loved one.  Some clients only need guidance through the probate process, while others need more heavy lifting.   In other instances, you may have a child who has reached the age of majority or an elderly parent, that still needs assistance making financial or healthcare decisions because of a disability or loss of capacity.  My goal is to reduce the legal burdens that arise in these scenarios, by offering customized, economical, and sensitive advice and counsel to guardians, conservators, executors, and trustees who are often faced with an enormous task at an incredibly difficult time.  Recent probate clients include:

• a client whose spouse passed unexpectedly without a will or a trust
• out of state clients who have an ownership interest in family property that was never probated, and
• clients whose family member owned a small business and a piece multimillion dollar real estate with only a basic will in place.

I offer a full range of probate and trust administration services including:

• Meetings with executors and trustees to offer general guidance and help them understand their obligations
• Assisting successor trustees with management and distribution of trust assets
• Full probate administration
• Guardianship and conservatorship proceedings

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When you’re running a business, almost everything you do is governed by a voluntary agreement with another person or company, which is why it is vital to understand the various forms and language that shape them. To protect against the ramifications of poorly worded phrases, overlooked details, confusing clauses, and inadequate remedies, I not only assist my clients in reviewing contracts they are creating or entering, I help negotiate and draft them to provide the utmost benefit and protection. Recent representative clients include:

• a technology company that manufactures and provides environmental monitoring systems,
• local interior designer needing client and vendor contracts, and
• veterinary practice undergoing a commercial renovation project.

I help clients with a broad range of contract matters including:

• Asset purchase agreements
• Client service contracts
• Employment agreements
• Independent contractor agreements
• Non-Disclosure/confidentiality agreements
• Non-compete agreements
• Business exits
• Purchase and sale contracts and transfer agreements
• Assignments and Bills of Sale
• Partnership Agreements and Shareholder Agreements
• Dissolution agreements

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Sometimes you need to sit down for legal guidance and direction, but you do not need full-time, senior-level general counsel. I offer small businesses, local professionals, and burgeoning entrepreneurs an affordable way to hire general counsel on an as-needed basis.  Whether you need documents reviewed and interpreted, research into a particular legal matter, foundational legal guidance for a new endeavor, or a legal opinion on a specific issue, I offer clients general counsel that is responsive and flexible at rates that are often substantially less than a larger firm may charge.  Hard fee estimates for specific projects can be provided – I know how important it is to budget and plan appropriately.

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