Commercial Business Attorney

Our client, a premier Columbia-area law firm, is searching for a sharp Commercial Business Attorney to join their team. This position offers a fantastic salary (up to $200,000 for an extremely qualified candidate with a book of business) and a chance to escape the everyday grind.

You won't be siloed. Instead, you'll tackle a dynamic mix of commercial transactions, corporate governance, and complex real estate matters. This is a key role reporting directly to the Managing Partner, where your advice will directly shape business strategy.

• Drive Major Deals: You’ll lead commercial transactions from start to finish. This includes structuring purchase and sale agreements, navigating joint ventures, and closing financing deals.
• Master Complex Contracts: Forget boring templates. You will draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of high-stakes contracts, including vendor agreements, service contracts, NDAs, and licensing deals.
• Shape Business Strategy: Act as a key advisor on corporate law. You’ll guide entity formation, manage mergers and acquisitions, dissolutions and handle all corporate documentation.
• Dominate Commercial Real Estate: This role handles the full spectrum of real estate law. You’ll manage acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, development, and financing.
• Be the Go-To Expert: You ll dig into the details, reviewing title commitments, surveys, and zoning reports.
• Business Advisement: In addition, you will partner directly with senior management to provide practical, clear-cut legal guidance that moves the business forward, assist in developing polices and procedures for contract and transaction management.

• A Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school.
• Must be licensed to practice law in South Carolina
• 3
  -7 years of hands-on experience in commercial and/or corporate law.
• A strong background in commercial transactions and contract law.
• experience with regulatory and legal compliance on local state and federal levels
• Experience with commercial real estate (acquisitions, leasing, etc.) is a major plus!
• Top-tier negotiation and drafting skills (you know how to get a deal done).
• A knack for juggling multiple high-priority projects with precision.
• Exceptional communication skills—you can explain complex law in simple terms.

If you are a driven attorney ready to make a real impact (and be compensated for it), we want to talk.