Meet Meg

Meg Scoopmire combines her legal knowledge and experience with her practical approach to problem solving to structure transactions and transaction documents in furtherance of her clients' goals and objectives. She is a skilled issue spotter who provides effective and efficient counsel to clients. She is a Greenville, SC native and co-leader of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd's Real Estate Team. 

Meg routinely provides general corporate and business advice to clients with primary emphasis on commercial real estate transactions and financing. She assists clients in negotiating purchase and sale agreements, coordinating and reviewing due diligence materials and closing transactions. She advises clients on title matters, permitting and entitlement, financing, leasing, acquisition and disposition. She has extensive experience drafting and negotiating real estate transaction documents, including purchase and sale agreements, deeds, mortgages, commercial leases, ground leases, easements, estoppels and subordination agreements.

For borrowers and commercial lenders, Meg advises and documents all aspects of commercial financing arrangements, including asset-based lending, construction financing, real estate financing and equipment financing. She handles the documenting and negotiation of commercial loans, including government-guaranteed programs such as SBA and USDA. Meg frequently serves as local counsel for buyers, borrowers and lenders, providing opinion letters and guidance on compliance with South Carolina attorney requirements, including issues related to the unauthorized practice of law.

Meg is an approved attorney and agent for several national title companies and is a designated attorney for the US Small Business Administration Development Company Loan Program (504).

EXPERIENCE

• •  Represented a continuing care retirement community as borrower and real estate counsel for an expansion project financed with a series of tax-exempt obligations totaling $134,635,000
• •  Represented a developer in the real estate acquisition, development and leasing of a 30,000 SF warehouse and assembly building
• •  Represented a non-profit corporation in the $132,000,000 acquisition of three assisted living facilities and one independent living facility financed with a series of tax-exempt obligations totaling $113,955,000 
• •  Represents a certified development company in connection with SBA 504 Development Company loans
• •  Represented a healthcare system in the $162,800,000 sale and partial leaseback of a portfolio of 16 medical office buildings totaling 855,376 SF
• •  Represented a Fortune 500 company in connection with a build-to-suit lease for a 1,694,000 SF warehouse and distribution center and in the acquisition of 459 acres for a 3,000,000 SF warehouse and distribution center
• •  Represented a private, not-for-profit, academic healthcare system in a ground lease and a development lease for a $31,500,000, 78,255 SF clinical learning and research building
• •  Served as lender’s counsel for a Fortune 500 financial services company in connection with a $65,000,000 asset based revolving line of credit
• •  Represented a Fortune 500 financial services company in connection with $50,311,350 in construction loans for the development of 588,943 SF of self-storage space throughout the Southeast

• University of South Carolina, J.D., 1998
• Furman University, B.A., 1991

• South Carolina, 1998
• U.S. District Court, South Carolina, 2003

• Chambers USA Real Estate (2014-2025)
• The Best Lawyers in America® Real Estate Law (2013-2026)
• Best Lawyers® Real Estate Law “Lawyer of the Year” Greenville (2023, 2025)
• Greenville Business Magazine “Legal Elite of the Upstate” Commercial Real Estate Law (2018-2025) and Corporate Law - Banking and Finance (2020-2023)
• Greenville Business Magazine “Legal Elite of the Upstate Top Vote Getter” Commercial Real Estate Law (2022)
• SCBIZ Magazine “Real Estate Attorneys Power List” (2022)

• American College of Mortgage Attorneys Foundation, Board of Directors (2026-Present), Secretary (2026-Present)
• American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Board of Regents (2020-Present), Fellow (2014-Present), Member Mortgage Law Summary Committee, former Co-Chair Business Development Committee
• A Child’s Haven, Board of Directors (2026-Present)
• University of North Carolina School of Law, Center for Banking and Finance, Board of Advisors (2021-2026)
• Jasmine Road, Board of Directors (2022-2025)
• South Carolina Bar, Real Estate Practice Section Council (2013-2015)
• CREW Network, Member Education Committee - Convention Program Planning (2015-2016)
• CREW Upstate South Carolina, Chapter Delegate for CREW Network (2012-2014), President (2012), Board Member (2011-2013), Sponsorship Committee Chair (2011)
• Greenville County Bar Association
• South Carolina Women Lawyers Association
• Leadership South Carolina, Class of 2012