William P. McElveen Jr.

He also counsels clients on commercial lending matters. Bill serves as counsel to national and regional banks, life insurance companies and other institutional lenders on office and retail development projects, industrial facilities, asset-based financings, credit enhancements to support bond financing, dormitory and sports complex financings for educational institutions, and troubled debt restructuring and workouts. He also provides legal opinions on the enforceability of mortgages and related security instruments.

With a practice evenly divided between real estate development and commercial lending, Bill brings an understanding of key issues in a real estate deal from both the developer’s and the lender’s perspectives.

Bill received his J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1984, and he earned his Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of South Carolina in 1980.

Bill's additional experience includes:

• Rehabilitation of two vacant department store buildings to create a multi-level office building, art museum and public plaza.
• Conversion of a historic downtown office tower to residential apartments utilizing conventional bank financing and tax credit financing.
• Development of waterfront multifamily projects in Columbia, SC, Charlotte, NC and Nashville, TN.
• Developer counsel on a planned mixed use project in Columbia, SC, to include multifamily, hotel and office uses.
• Bank counsel on numerous tax exempt loans to hospitals, educational institutions and various non-profit organizations.
• Bank counsel on secured credit facilities to support acquisition and development activities for a regional homebuilder on projects in several states in the Southeast.
• Counsel for a national agricultural lender on securitized loans for properties located throughout the Southeast.