- Managing Partner: : John A Sowards
- Partners: 103
- Other attorneys: 85
FIRM OVERVIEW: Nexsen Pruet, LLC is one of the largest law firms in the Carolinas, with more than 180 attorneys and offices in Columbia, Charleston, Greenville, Hilton Head, and Myrtle Beach, S.C. as well as Charlotte, Greensboro, and Raleigh, N.C. Founded in 1945, Nexsen Pruet provides a broad range of legal services to the business community and represents companies and other entities in local, state, national, and international venues.
MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE:
Financial Services: The group has experience in corporate/commercial finance transactions involving debt and equity markets as well as representing lenders and borrowers in middle market, asset-based, mezzanine and other types of debt financing. The group has extensive experience in workouts, restructures,modifications and general debt restructures.
Litigation: The firm’s broad litigation experience includes antitrust and unfair trade practices, appellate, asbestos, aviation, business disputes, catastrophic injury, civil rights defense, class actions, commercial/contracts, computer, internet and technology, creditors’ rights and bankruptcy, document review capabilities, health care, insurance coverage, insurance bad faith defense, intellectual property, international arbitrations, labor and employment, lender liability and business torts, maritime, products liability, public utilities, securities, toxic tort, transportation and trucking, truck accident defense, workers’ compensation and more.
Construction: The Construction Team’s experience includes pre-construction planning, bid-packaging, employment issues, procurement, environmental permitting, project financing, contract drafting and review, claims preparation, and litigation.The firm represents public and private owners, developers, design professionals, contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers as well as working with national bonding companies.
Corporate: The firm serves local and start-up companies as well as major institutional businesses with multi-state and international operations. Activities include banking and financial services, insurance, manufacturing, transportation, textiles, computers and other technologies, wholesale and retail sales, distribution services, construction, real estate development and management and natural resources development.
Employment & Labor: The group’s diverse services include arbitrations/mediations, business immigration, discrimination, retaliation, harassment claims, employee benefits design/administration, employee benefits litigation, executive contracts and compensation, FMLA issues, individual employee and class action suits, reductions in force and plant closings, trade secret protection /litigation, union representation elections and unfair labor practices, wage and hour compliance/litigation, whistleblower investigations/ lawsuits, and workers’ compensation.
Environmental: The firm handles licensing, permitting and enforcement transactions, siting, permitting, and operation of industrial, manufacturing, service, or research and development facilities, the purchase of and lending for commercial or industrial properties, and environmental insurance coverage litigation. Healthcare: The group represents several hundred physicians and more than twenty hospitals on an on-going basis throughout South Carolina and North Carolina. The firm is also called upon for special projects by many other healthcare clients.
Intellectual Property: The firm represents clients with a broad range of intellectual property issues, including internet law, patent, trademark and copyright matters, intellectual property litigation and dispute resolution, licensing, technology transfer, employer/ employee rights in intellectual property, and issues important in the buying and selling of businesses such as due diligence and valuation.
Real Estate: The group represents buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, lenders, borrowers, developers, and investors, and serves businesses of all types and size. The firm’s lawyers combine an understanding of real estate transactions with years of experience in issues such as project structuring, land assemblage, financing, zoning, permitting and land-use.
Tax: The firm represents clients in buying and selling businesses; state and local taxation; corporate distributions and reorganizations; tax aspects of buying, selling and leasing, including tax-free exchange transactions, general and limited partnership taxation, including tax opinions for real estate offerings, pension and profit-sharing plans, stock option and other employee benefit plans, deferred compensation arrangements, income, estate and gift tax planning for individuals, and the taxation of estates and trusts.
INTERNATIONAL WORK: The firm represents over 100 Asian, European, and Latin American companies with expansions in the Southeastern U.S., advising them on economic development incentives, site acquisition and zoning approvals, corporate and tax issues, employment and labor law matters, environmental issues; mergers and acquisitions, terms of sale, international distribution, joint venture, or licensing arrangements, foreign supplier arrangements and enforcing and terminating such arrangements. Various attorneys and staff are fluent in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
CLIENTS: The firm’s domestic and international clients include companies in the agriculture, chemistry, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, construction, economic development, energy, health care, hospitality and tourism,manufacturing, real estate, telecommunications and transportation industries. The firm offers significant advantages in terms of outstanding individual lawyers, a depth of talent, and extensive experience in many areas.