Mikail O. Clark is an attorney with Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, where he focuses his practice on business and finance, mergers and acquisitions, and securities. He provides clients with useful and pragmatic solutions to their ongoing concerns and helps clients to strategically identify and address short and long-term goals in a budget-conscious matter. Each and every client and industry is unique and requires varying levels of legal, business, and technical expertise. By providing such expertise in a timely and responsive manner, Mr. Clark aims to develop close and lasting relationships with the successful businesses and businesspersons that make his job possible. Prior to joining the firm, he was a corporate associate at a law firm based in Charlotte, North Carolina in its corporate department where he focused primarily in transactional law by assisting clients with mergers and acquisitions and in the contract negotiation, contract review, reorganization, restructuring, and corporate governance aspects of their business. He also advised on private placement and tax matters. Previously, Mr. Clark worked as a summer associate and then an associate at a regional full-service law firm in its Charleston, West Virginia office where he represented lenders and borrowers in various financial transactions and structures, including secured commercial credit facilities, acquisition financings, and asset-based lending. While attending Washington and Lee University School of Law, he worked as a summer law clerk in the Charleston office of a West Virginia-based law firm. Mr. Clark was also advancement editor of the
Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice. He was recognized in 2024 and the three years immediately preceding as one of the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for corporate law by
The Best Lawyers in America®. Mr. Clark was named one of
Business North Carolina magazine's Young Guns (Best Under 40) in 2024.
Maurice D. Holloway is a partner with the Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP in Greenville, South Carolina. His practice areas include corporate and business entity law, taxation, estate planning, and business law. Mr. Holloway is a member of the American Bar Association, South Carolina Bar Association, Greenville County Bar Association, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and South Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants. He earned his B.S. and M.A. degrees from Clemson University; his J.D. degree, cum laude, from University of South Carolina School of Law; and his L.LM. from University of Florida Levin College of Law.
Douglas L. Lineberry is a principal with the Greenville, South Carolina office of Offit Kurman. Whether he is assisting clients with the protection of intellectual property through patent, trademark, and copyright prosecution, or intellectual property litigation, he focuses on building relationships founded on trust and constant communication. Mr. Lineberry successfully prosecutes patent applications for mechanical, medical, and chemical technologies. He helps clients with establishing and protecting trademark portfolios, guarding against improper third-party use, and conducting enforcement actions. Mr. Lineberry advises his clients on all matters involving intellectual property, trade secrets, branding and marketing issues, and contractual and other business matters. He also works with mid-level companies within the biotech industry. This gives Mr. Lineberry the opportunity to use his broad connections to help bring their inventions to market safely while protecting their intellectual property every step of the way. He is a member of the South Carolina Bar, American Bar Association, Greenville Bar Association, Trademark & Copyright Law Association, and The Carolina Patent Trademark Copyright Law Association. Mr. Lineberry earned his B.A. degree from Emory & Henry College and his J.D. degree from Mercer University School of Law.
Christopher MacMurray is a staff attorney in the firm's real estate practice group. He has experience reviewing and drafting investment advisory compliance polices and client advertisement documents. Mr. MacMurray has provided transactional legal supports to numerous startup companies. He earned his J.D. degree from the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University, with a concentration in business and entrepreneurship law. Mr. MacMurray also obtained a full merit scholarship. Prior to law school, he attended Georgia Southern University, where he studied economics. Mr. MacMurray was also a member of the Georgia Southern Men's Soccer Team and served as a NCAA Student Athlete Advisory Committee Team Representative.
Michael P. Scruggs is of counsel with Schlemlein Fick & Franklin PLLC. His broad range of experience includes litigation on behalf of companies and individuals in the areas of business, insurance, real estate, contracts, construction, personal injury, shareholder and LLC member disputes, as well as many other areas. In addition to his litigation and trial experience, Mr. Scruggs regularly handles transactional matters such as business purchase and sale agreements, real estate transactions, business entity formations, contracts, leases, etc. He has successfully litigated a wide and diverse range of cases, including a recent commercial dispute in which he saved his client more than $150 million over the remaining term of a commercial lease. Mr. Scruggs has litigated complex and difficult matters such as the Pang warehouse fire insurance coverage litigation, a multi-million-dollar wrongful death action involving Washington's largest public utility district, the Tent City 4 encampment dispute, and TEDRA matters involving distribution of partnership property. He earned his B.A. degree from University of Washington and his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from University of Puget Sound School of Law. Mr. Scruggs is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court Western District of Washington, and in the states of Washington and South Carolina.
Stephanie Yarbrough is a partner in King & Spalding's corporate, finance and investments practice group. She focuses her practice on advising domestic and international companies seeking to expand or relocate in the United States, noting that one of the biggest assets she brings to clients is her ability to navigate relationships with local and state governmental leadership and decision makers. Ms. Yarbrough has extensive experience advising companies across a wide range of industries, including corporate headquarters, manufacturing, datacenters, distribution and large office deals. She has extensive experience in the automotive sector, the life sciences sector and aviation. Ms. Yarbrough works with new and expanding businesses in identifying and negotiating all aspects of a discretionary incentive package, advocating before the proper governmental entities during all phases of the incentive approval process. She negotiates and structures large incentive packages on behalf of global companies on a daily basis. Ms. Yarbrough also advises clients in general tax and corporate matters, noting that her deep experience in public company mergers and acquisitions makes her well suited to run some of the largest deals in the country. Her efforts on behalf of clients have led to the creation of hundreds of thousands of new jobs and billions of dollars in capital investment. Additionally, Ms. Yarbrough is brought in regularly by leading site selection consulting firms and other global law firms as local counsel on economic development deals where her knowledge and tenacity can be critical to getting deals done. She regularly counsels companies on all aspects of the deal, incentives, tax, real estate, corporate, construction, IP/patent, litigation, employment, immigration, environmental, land use/planning/zoning. Ms. Yarbrough's legal work often involves foreign based companies and is evenly split between landlord/developer representation and tenant/end user representation. As a recognized thought leader in the economic development space, she is frequently sought after to speak at local, national and global industry conferences and regularly publishes articles and insights. Ms. Yarbrough is individually ranked for corporate/M&A and private equity,
Chambers USA (District of Columbia) and as a Super Lawyer of
The Best Lawyers in America for her exceptional work in economic development law. She is admitted to practice in South Carolina, North Carolina and Washington, D.C.
Timothy Zwerner is a partner at Burr Forman LLP. His real estate practice focuses on the representation of developers, sponsors, investors, and lenders in complex commercial real estate opportunities with a particular emphasis on developments, acquisitions and dispositions, joint-ventures, lease-ups, and financings in the multi-family/single-family rental, agricultural, retail and hospitality industries. Mr. Zwerner earned his B.A. degree from Furman University and his J.D. degree from University of Florida, Levin College of Law. He is licensed to practice in South Carolina, Florida and Georgia.
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