Shawn R. Willis
Shawn Willis is a business lawyer that handles planning, transactions and litigation. He primarily handles matters involving real estate, banking, closely held businesses and taxation. Shawn also handles matters involving community associations, such as homeowners’ associations and condominium regimes. Shawn’s transactional practice gives him valuable insight that aids his litigation matters, and vice versa. Additionally, he has advanced his legal education by obtaining a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation.
“Running a business is complex enough for my clients, and they don’t need legalese complicating things further. My goal is to break down legal issues and communicate them in their simplest forms so my clients can easily understand the practical, real world effects they will have on their businesses.”
Below are examples of some of the types of matters Shawn handles:
Commercial Real Estate:
- Acquisitions and sales
- Financing
- Leasing
- Horizontal Property Regimes
- Development
- Zoning
- Property Tax Appeals
- 1031 exchanges
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Lender and Bank Owned Real Estate (REO / OREO) Transactions
Commercial Loan Defaults:
- Mortgage Foreclosures
- Security Agreement Foreclosures
- Suits on Notes and Guaranties
- Claim and Delivery Actions
- Commercial Collections
- Supplementary Proceedings
- Domestication and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
- Loan Workouts and Modifications
- Forbearance Agreements
- Confessions of Judgments
- Deeds in Lieu of Foreclosure
- Note Purchases and Sales
Real Estate Litigation:
- Title Insurance Claims
- Quiet Title Actions
- Declaratory Judgments
- Priority Disputes
- Commercial Evictions
- Public and Private Road Closures
- Condemnation Defense and Inverse Condemnation
- Partition Actions
- Easement and Right of Way Disputes
- Boundary Disputes
- Asset Forfeitures
Corporate and Business Transactions:
- Asset Purchases and Sales
- Stock Purchases and Sales
- Mergers
- Business Entity Formations
- Reorganizations
- Dissolutions
- Contract Drafting and Review
- Non-Profits
Estate and Closely Held Business Planning:
- Wills and Trusts
- Taxable Estate and Gift Planning
- Business Succession Planning
- Asset Protection
- Probate Administration
Community Associations:
- Governance and Operations
- Covenant Drafting and Amendment
- Covenant and Restriction Enforcement
- Assessment Collections
- Lien Foreclosures
- Developer Transitions
- Taxation
Recent Representative Matters:
- Represented borrower in the refinance of multi-tenant commercial office building
- Represented purchaser in acquisition and financing of manufacturing facility
- Served as local counsel for sale of South Carolina manufacturing facility involved in multinational asset sale
- Represented seller in asset sale involving an international logistics company
- Represented purchaser in stock purchase involving an agricultural manufacturing company
- Represented lender in complex contested commercial mortgage foreclosure involving an unfinished residential subdivision
- Represented hotel owner in property tax appeal
- Represented landowner in restrictive covenant dispute regarding proposed solar energy facility
- Represented community association in connection with income tax issues related to developer turnover