Commercial Transactions and Real Estate

South Carolina business lawyers

The attorneys in the Commercial Transactions and Real Estate Practice Group at Young Clement Rivers, LLP combine the corporate elements of a business practice with knowledge of the tax and labor/employee implications essential to a transaction.

The ability to provide comprehensive services in complex matters has established the firm’s success in representing companies in significant transactions across South Carolina.

The group provides legal advice to:

  • Businesses
  • Banks
  • Corporations
  • Quasi-governmental entities
  • Health care providers
  • Limited liability companies
  • Non-profits
  • Partnerships
  • Shareholders
  • Officers and directors

The group’s attorneys advise and represent clients in structuring all aspects of a transaction, including:

  • Corporate formation, including business entity selection
  • LLP, LLC, Partnership, S-corp, Corporation, other entities
  • Operating agreements for limited liability companies (LLCs)
  • Contractual matters, including employment related contracts
  • Shareholder agreements
  • Majority/minority representation
  • Commercial and other financial arrangements
  • Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
  • Start ups, early stage, and emerging growth companies
  • Reorganizations
  • Loan work outs/forbearance agreements
  • Complex transactions
  • Sale-leasebacks
  • Tax deferred exchanges
  • Real property tax appeals
  • Employee/labor benefits, liabilities and necessary notices

Sound advice on business formation

When helping a client to establish a business in South Carolina, the Young Clement Rivers, LLP Commercial Transactions and Real Estate Practice Group works closely with the firm’s tax attorneys. The client team reviews the prospective company’s structure, participants, goals, and liability concerns before recommending the optimal form of organization the business should adopt. The group's goal for every business client is to focus on liability protection and tax minimization, while helping to position the company structurally for sustainability and growth.

South Carolina employment and labor advice

From WARN notices, severance and retention agreements, interpretation of non-competes and key employee contracts to establishment of initial employee benefits, practices and policies, the Commercial Transactions and Real Estate group incorporates its experience in employment and labor law to provide full service in business formation.

Charleston real estate representation

The group’s extensive commercial real estate representation includes experience with a wide range of projects and developments. These include contract negotiation, land acquisition and development, lease structuring and other legal services for, among others:

  • Industrial park developments
  • Multi-property real estate purchases
  • Brownfields land acquisition, recovery, and renewal
  • Governmental redevelopment agency projects
  • Hotel development, including acquisition, construction and permanent financing
  • Apartment to condominium conversion
  • Condominium development and formation
  • Statutory compliance and interpretation
  • Health care agreements
  • Wealth transfer transactions focused on tax benefits

The group assists clients in transactional real estate matters and dispute resolution for:

  • Construction lending (lender and developer representation)
  • Development loan closings
  • Community associations
  • Homeowners associations (HOA’s)
  • Plantation properties
  • Commercial foreclosures
  • Mechanics liens
  • Preparation and interpretation of restrictive covenants
  • Industrial property acquisitions
  • Assemblage of multiple parcels
  • Zoning and land use regulation
  • Commercial leasing
  • Contract negotiations
  • Title insurance claims
  • Section 1031 exchanges
  • Condominium master deeds

While the group focuses on commercial transactions, it also has an active practice in residential real estate including purchase and sale of high-end residential properties in the downtown historic district and on Kiawah Island, Seabrook Island, Sullivans Island and the Isle of Palms. The firm also advises on related property tax issues, including homeowner assessment ratio, questions of whether a transaction will result in an assessable transfer of interest, and valuation for tax purposes.

Local counsel in South Carolina

In addition to leading complex corporate transactions, the firm provides local counsel opinion letters for multi-state and interstate transactions. South Carolina law differs in important ways from the laws of other states. The firm’s attorneys are knowledgeable about lender issues, South Carolina case law, and other local issues that directly influence commercial real estate transactions.

Young Clement Rivers, LLP lawyers regularly analyze and review documents and provide legal opinions on a variety of issues for clients including banks, insurance companies, health care providers, institutional lenders, and individuals. Firm lawyers often act as local counsel for clients and other law firms throughout the country in South Carolina multi-state transactions, and collaborate with attorneys in other states to similarly assist clients in South Carolina.

Comprehensive tax advice

The group’s attorneys provide tax advice, in consultation with the firm’s tax group when appropriate, to help clients monitor and control the tax and estate planning implications of each business decision.

Practice group attorneys

Contact Young Clement Rivers, LLP

To talk to one of Young Clement Rivers, LLP’s seasoned South Carolina attorneys, call (843) 720-5492 or contact the firm online.