Jennifer Blumenthal

Practice Areas

Commercial & Corporate Finance

Financial Institutions

Financial Services

Manufacturing

Real Estate

Corporate Law

Agriculture Funding & Lending

Multifamily Housing

Career

Jennifer serves as the Vice-Chair of the firm’s Lending Practice Group. Jennifer practices corporate, banking, and business transactional law, with a concentration on commercial lending, real estate finance, and UCC secured transactions, including loan workouts. Her practice also covers local government law, including public utility law and municipal election law, public meeting law, public records (freedom of information), and procurement matters.

Jennifer frequently serves as local counsel in multi-state transactions in rendering third-party legal opinions under state law and has made and moderated several presentations on third-party opinion practice, including topics on professionalism and ethical considerations.

Jennifer handles complex business and financing transactions, including matters involving public and private real estate development projects, construction financing, office, and retail leasing; company and asset acquisitions; asset-based lending; and debt restructuring. Her clients include financial institutions, national and international-based manufacturing companies, real estate developers, timeshare resorts, healthcare organizations, nonprofit corporations, public and private utilities, and governmental entities. She is also involved in many aspects of public finance transactions.

Jennifer is the former President of the South Carolina Bar Foundation. She also serves as Chair of the Legal Opinion Ad Hoc Committee and is Chair-Elect of the Corporate, Banking, and Securities Law Section of the Corporate, Banking and Securities Law Section of the South Carolina Bar.

Jennifer earned her J.D. from Wake Forest University and her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Professional Memberships

South Carolina Bar Association

Board Member, South Carolina Bar Foundation, (2016-present)

- President, South Carolina Bar Foundation (2020-2021)

- Immediate Past President (2021-2022)

Real Estate Practice Section

Corporate, Banking and Securities Law Section

- Section Council Member, (2006-2011; 2017-present)

- Vice Chair (2021-2022)

- Past Chair (2008-2009)

- Section Delegate to the House of Delegates (2010-2011)

- Secretary (2020-2021)

- Legal Opinion Ad Hoc Committee, Chair (2006-present)

- Task Force on UPL in Commercial Transactions (2007-2008)

American Bar Association, Section of Business Law; Section of Real Property, Probate and Trust Law; Numerous Committees and Subcommittees, including Committees on Legal Opinions

Charleston County Bar Association

South Carolina Women Lawyers' Association

CREW Network and CREW Charleston

Personal

Junior League of Charleston, Inc.; Board of Directors (2005-2009, 2017-2018); Sustainer Vice President (2019-2020)

MUSC Hollings Cancer Center Citizens Advisory Council (2011-2019)

Trident CEO Council (2015-present)

South Carolina Public Employee Benefit Authority, Board of Directors (2019-present)

- Finance, Administration, Audit and Compliance Committee Vice-Chairman

Brookgreen Gardens, General Counsel