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Restaurant and hospitality law

Restaurant and Hospitality Law


With offices in Charleston and Wilmington, Barnwell Whaley understands the importance of the hospitality industry to the coastal Carolinas. Our hospitality law attorneys have decades of experience in helping retail establishments, restaurants, bars, beverage manufacturers, resorts, and hotels with every facet of their operations.

Barnwell Whaley hospitality law attorneys offer counsel every step along the way, from commercial property transactions to partnership and lease agreements. As you grow your business and add personnel, our employment lawyers can advise on local labor laws and assist you in negotiating contracts for managerial hires.

There may even come a time when your business becomes involved in the court system. If that happens, our litigation team is on your side. Barnwell Whaley litigators have successfully defended retail establishments, hotels, restaurants, and bars from lawsuits involving matters related to premises liability, food safety claims, dram shop claims for alcohol-related sales, and more.

The areas of law in which we have experience in providing legal services to the hospitality industry include:

business acquisition, valuation, commercial closings, loans, financial workouts
real estate: acquisition and commercial closings, land use and development matters, commercial leases
employment and labor laws
• business formation: partnership agreements, contract      negotiations
• business restructuring
• business dissolution
workers compensation claims
litigation matterspremises liabilitydram shop liability claimspersonal injury defense

Our attorneys have even counseled our long-term business clients in their personal probate and estate matters, ensuring the business that they have built and worked for their entire lives is passed down to loved ones in the most efficient manner possible.