Business Services

Holcombe Bomar, P.A. has an active business services practice. Our attorneys have vast experience counseling clients through all phases of business and corporate ownership and management. We represent clients in business incorporations, acquisitions, mergers, restructuring, financing, banking, employment matters, franchising, debt collections, contract review, and contract disputes. We also provide commercial and private real estate services, a necessary component of a well-rounded business services practice.

We know that each client who approaches us for business or corporate advice is different. Some seek to start or exit businesses while others need assistance navigating complex issues during critical times of corporate growth or evolution. Whether representing an individual, a family-owned business, or a publicly-traded corporation, we pride ourselves on focusing on our clients' best interests. Our advice is client-centered and focuses on delivering cost-effective solutions.

This approach has allowed us to develop long-term relationships with business clients of all shapes and sizes throughout the country. This approach has also allowed us to earn the trust of fellow attorneys within and without South Carolina. Through the relationships our firm has developed, our attorneys are entrusted to provide business and corporate services to a wide ranging client base, including privately-held companies, publicly-held corporations, financial institutions, lenders, investors, manufacturers, and developers.

Business and Commercial Transactions

With a broad range of experience and great depth of proficiency, Holcombe Bomar's business attorneys provide efficient, practical, and cost-effective legal advice to clients engaged in business transactions of all types and sizes. Our transactional practice provides comprehensive legal services to corporations, closely-held entities, non-profit entities, limited liability companies, general and limited partnerships, and joint ventures across the State of South Carolina and beyond.

Holcombe Bomar's business attorneys pride themselves on developing meaningful and long-lasting relationships with the clients they serve and have extensive experience as general counsel for clients in the health care, manufacturing, banking, software, and construction industries, to name a few. Regardless of the size or nature of your particular business, Holcombe Bomar's attorneys have the experience and skills necessary to provide the highest level of professional and responsive legal counsel.

Holcombe Bomar's business attorneys regularly provide counsel on issues most important to our clients' companies, including all aspects of: business formation, organization and governance, compliance, employment and business relations, sales, mergers and acquisitions, securities matters, equity and debt financings, joint ventures, collaborations, strategic alliances, non-profit entities, acquisitions and divestitures, recapitalizations, technology acquisition, licensing, manufacturing and distribution agreements, equipment purchases and leases, and general contract review and drafting for the purchase or sale of goods and services.

In the increasingly complex world of business, our attorneys ascribe to a very simple rule: our success is measured by our clients' success.

Commercial Litigation

With a proven record of success, Holcombe Bomar has the skill and experience necessary to represent commercial clients of all types and sizes in a multitude of matters ranging from simple contract disputes to complex commercial litigation. Our commercial litigation group understands the time, effort and expense litigation can demand from a business; therefore, our attorneys provide not only well-honed trial skills, but also practical advice to help clients make judicious decisions when weighing the merits of litigation versus business objectives. By committing ourselves to providing client focused representation, we seek to achieve cost effective and beneficial results.

Helping our clients meet their business objectives means delivering not only short term results but long term solutions; often our most valuable service to clients may be advising clients on dispute avoidance strategies. Therefore, Holcombe Bomar's experienced attorneys are well-suited to provide legal counsel regarding litigation prevention and compliance planning.

In the event that litigation is necessary, our attorneys can provide your business with the necessary skill and experience in a wide range of matters involving contracts, securities, antitrust, real estate and general commercial disputes concerning:

• Breach of Contract Claims
• Partnership Disputes
• Shareholder Disputes and Officer and Director Disputes
• Corporate Governance and Fiduciary Matters
• Employment Disputes
• Property Rights Disputes
• Trade Secret or Non-competition Disputes
• Unfair Competition and Unfair Trade Practices Claims
• Franchise Disputes
• Insurance Coverage Disputes

Banking and Finance

Holcombe Bomar's attorneys have extensive experience in representing both lenders and borrowers, and regularly structure, negotiate, document, render opinions and close complex and routine financial transactions concerning real estate deals, asset-based lending, corporate and commercial lending, lease finance, project finance, and public finance. Additionally, Holcombe Bomar serves as counsel to local and major regional banks, as well as finance and consumer loan companies in matters concerning both small loans and highly-negotiated credit facilities. Holcombe Bomar also assists in the collection of commercial and consumer accounts and defends claims regarding lender liability and breach of fiduciary duty.

Holcombe Bomar's attorneys have the requisite experience and depth of skill necessary to execute transactions and represent clients across a wide range of financial market sectors in a number of matters, including commercial loan documentation and closing, loan modifications, restructuring and workouts, collections, lender liability and bank regulations.

Employment

The landscape of employment law is ever changing and seems to grow more complex by the day; therefore, it is increasingly important to have trusted legal counsel by your side who understands your business. Holcombe Bomar’s employment lawyers possess the experience and business instincts to deliver meaningful and cost effective solutions to each challenge your company may face. Our lawyers are focused on providing clients with practical counsel and best-practices approaches allowing businesses to identify and reduce risks before costly or complex problems develop. In the event litigation arises, our litigators are available to provide seamless, efficient and cost-conscious representation. Holcombe Bomar’s employment lawyers regularly counsel companies of all types and sizes on a wide array of matters, including:

• Employee Policies and Handbooks
• Wage and Hour Compliance
• Management Training Programs
• Employee Agreements, including Non-Competes and Severance Agreements
• Federal and State Compliance Issues including ADA, EEOC, FMLA, FLSA, OSHA, ERISA, NLRA, RLA and Sarbanes-Oxley
• Employee Related Protected Health Information and HIPAA Compliance
• Defense of Workplace Claims Against Employers

Real Estate

From negotiating and structuring complex real estate transactions to closing garden variety residential purchases, Holcombe Bomar's lawyers have a great depth of experience in providing sophisticated legal counsel to clients of all types and sizes. With a comprehensive understanding of the real estate market that only comes from time tested experience, Holcombe Bomar's real estate practice group provides efficient, practical, and cost effective legal advice to clients in a broad range of matters. Our attorneys represent individuals, developers, investors, lenders and businesses in the acquisition, development, financing, sale and leasing of real estate. Regardless of the size or nature of your particular real estate matter, Holcombe Bomar's attorneys have the experience and skills necessary to provide the highest level of professional and responsive legal counsel. Holcombe Bomar's real estate practice group routinely handles matters involving:

• Commercial Acquisitions and Dispositions
• Real Estate Development
• Financing
• Leasing
• Zoning and Land Use
• Environmental Matters and Sustainable Development
• Construction
• Residential Real Estate Closings
• Public/Private Partnerships
• Joint Ventures
• Real Estate Investment Management
• Distressed Real Estate
• Residential Sales
• Homeowners’ Associations

Creditors' Rights, Collection and Bankruptcy

Holcombe Bomar offers experienced attorneys with diverse skills for clients with varying needs including lenders, secured and unsecured creditors, trade creditors, debtors, strategic asset purchasers, special servicers of real estate-backed loans owned by investment trusts, banks, thrifts, insurance companies, and other business clients, as well as trustees and receivers. Our lawyers take pride in their ability to provide business-minded, practical, and effective legal counsel. We assist clients in obtaining repayment of debt and recovery of collateral by providing effective, results-driven counsel regarding creditor remedies, debt restructuring techniques, and workout transactions. We have experience in handling a variety of issues that arise in bankruptcy workouts, turnarounds, reorganizations and liquidation cases, receivership cases, plans of arrangement, loan forbearance, extension agreements, and other non-bankruptcy workouts and restructurings. Holcombe Bomar's lawyers routinely provide legal representation in the collection of commercial and consumer debts and a wide array of services necessary to represent the interests of creditors, including replevins, bankruptcy and foreclosure of mortgages and other liens.