Margaret R. (Meg) Scoopmire

Practice Areas

Real Estate

Commercial Transactions

Lending Transactions

Project Finance & Commercial Lending

Career

Meg Scoopmire co-chairs Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd's Real Estate Practice Group. She represents clients in negotiating purchase and sale agreements, coordinating and reviewing due diligence materials and closing transactions. She advises clients on title matters, permitting and entitlement, financing, leasing, acquisition, and disposition. She has extensive experience drafting and negotiating real estate transaction documents including purchase and sale agreements, deeds, mortgages, commercial leases, ground leases, easements, estoppels, and subordination agreements.

For borrowers and commercial lenders, Meg advises and documents all aspects of commercial financing arrangements, including asset-based lending, construction financing, real estate financing, and equipment financing. She handles the documenting and negotiation of commercial loans, including government guaranteed programs such as SBA and USDA. She is able to provide attorney opinion letters in commercial transactions for out of state attorneys or clients whose transactions require a South Carolina opinion. Meg can provide guidance on compliance with South Carolina attorney requirements and unauthorized practice of law considerations.

Meg is an approved attorney and agent for several national title companies and is a designated attorney for the US Small Business Administration Development Company Loan Program (504).

Meg's recent experience includes:

• Represented a healthcare system in the $162,800,000 sale and partial leaseback of a portfolio of 16 medical office buildings totaling 855,376 SF

• Represented a Fortune 500 company in connection with a build-to-suit lease for a 1,694,000 SF warehouse & distribution center and in the acquisition of 459 acres for a 3,000,000 SF warehouse & distribution center

• Represented a private, not-for-profit, academic healthcare system in a ground lease and a development lease for a $31,500,000, 78,255 SF clinical learning and research building

• Served as lender’s counsel for a Fortune 500 financial services company in connection with a $65,000,000 asset-based revolving line of credit

• Served as local counsel in connection with the refinancing of an international retail corporation’s global finance package

• Represented a Fortune 500 financial services company in connection with $50,311,350 in construction loans for the development of 588,943 SF of self-storage space throughout the Southeast

Professional Memberships

University of North Carolina School of Law, Center for Banking and Finance, Board of Advisors (2021-Present)

American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Board of Regents (2020-Present), Fellow (2014-Present), Co-Chair Business Development Committee, Member Mortgage Law Summary Committee

Education

Awards