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The Business Litigation Department handles a broad range of business and commercial matters, including contract disputes, construction litigation, bankruptcy, health care, unfair competition, business torts, employment litigation, insurance disputes, environmental litigation, real estate litigation, corporate and partnership disputes and securities litigation. We typically defend South Carolina businesses; however, we also initiate suits on behalf of our clients. In the area of creditors’ rights and bankruptcy the Business Litigation Department handles all phases of creditors’ rights representation, including workouts, pretrial litigation, trials, appeals, pre and post judgment remedies and bankruptcy. We also have experience in all forms of alternative dispute resolution, encompassing arbitration and mediation. Our Business Litigation Department represents clients throughout the State of South Carolina foreclosing mortgages, judgment liens, construction liens or other security interests against both real and personal property. Our representation ranges from simple residential mortgage foreclosures to complex commercial foreclosures. Our attorneys and staff are well versed in the applicable laws affecting priorities and perfection of security interests. Our attorneys provide our creditor clients with a problem solving approach that enables our clients to enforce their rights quickly and economically. The firm represents lenders and borrowers in restructurings of corporate and real estate transactions that are designed to avoid bankruptcy. Our ability to negotiate restructurings that are fair and realistic for our clients is enhanced by our strong corporate and real estate practice. Our Business Litigation attorneys are leaders in Bar organizations such as the American Bar Association, the South Carolina Bar and the International Association of Defense Counsel at all levels. Many of the attorneys are recognized as preeminent in their areas of practice and are often invited to speak and publish in forums such as the South Carolina Bar Journal, the ABA annual meetings, seminars, national trial advocacy schools and various law schools and their publications.
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