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Megan P. O'Neill

Megan P. O'Neill

USA 2026

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About

Provided by Wyche, P.A.

USA

Practice Areas

Commercial Real Estate

Real Estate Acquisition and Development

Corporate

Real Estate Finance

Economic Development and Incentives

Joint Ventures and Public-Private Partnerships

Real Estate Leasing

Career

Megan O’Neill is the Chair of Wyche’s Transactional Practice Group. She regularly represents clients in a wide variety of commercial real estate transactions, including the acquisition, development, leasing, disposition and financing of all types of commercial properties. She has been main counsel to sponsors in numerous projects throughout the Southeast with acquisition and development costs ranging from $25,000,000 to over $100,000,000 and involving multifaceted equity and financing structures. Megan enjoys the challenge of complex transactions which often yield unique issues at various stages of the transactions, and she has a keen ability to efficiently and creatively work towards agreeable resolutions for her clients.

Professional Memberships

CREW Greenville (Commercial Real Estate Women), Founding Member, Board of Directors, 2009-2012, Current Member

Urban Land Institute, Member

Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce, Real Estate Group, Member

Greenville County Bar Association, Real Estate Section, Member

South Carolina Bar, 1997

Colorado Bar, 1993

District of Columbia Bar, 1992

Virginia Bar, 1991

Experience

Represents clients in the entitlement and development of master-planned mixed-use projects involving the drafting and negotiation of complex multi-party easement agreements, public-private partnership agreements, master and sub-regime condominium declarations and ground leases.

Represents clients in the redevelopment of multiple abandoned textile mills in South Carolina, utilizing abandoned textile mills tax credits, federal and state historic tax credits, and brownfields tax credits.

Represented clients in connection with New Markets Tax Credits financing transactions for office building and mixed-use projects in South Carolina and Georgia.

Represents clients in connection with the formation of Qualified Opportunity Funds used to finance development projects located in Opportunity Zones in South Carolina and North Carolina.

Represented clients financing projects under the HUD 221(d)(4) loan program, Freddie Mac Moderate Rehab and other loan programs and Fannie Mae loan programs in South Carolina, North Carolina and Florida.

Represented client in the purchase and renovation of five fractured condominium projects throughout Florida.

Represents client in the new development and substantial renovation of boutique hotels.

Represents operating companies in the purchase, development and/or lease of office, retail and industrial properties.

Represented a developer in the development of a master-planned single family home rental community, one of the first of its kind in the nation.

Represented developer in the development and disposition of large student housing apartment complexes bordering campuses of several public universities throughout the Southeast.

Represented national restaurant chain in negotiating leases for new restaurant locations throughout the country.

Represented regional bank in the purchase, development and/or lease of all South Carolina bank locations.

Represented a national leasing management company in drafting and negotiating office and retail leases throughout the country.

Education

Vanderbilt University School of Law

Awards

Listed in South Carolina Super Lawyers, 2021 - Present

Listed in Best Lawyers® in America, 2010 - Present

Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the USA

Real Estate - South Carolina

Band 2
Band 2

Individual Editorial
Megan O'Neill is highly experienced in both corporate and real estate law. She regularly advises on large transactions concerning condominiums, multifamily housing and mixed-use development projects.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

  • Megan is different from other attorneys because her experience is second to none, and the fact that she is local to our office is extremely conducive to our business.

    Real EstateChambers Guide to the USA
  • Megan has proven to be a great resource, executing truly complex real estate transactions and, perhaps most valuable, understanding our business and finding ways to maximize our success.

    Real EstateChambers Guide to the USA

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South Carolina

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