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Glen P. Caulk
Partner
1320 Main Street
17th Floor
Columbia, SC 29201
Glen uses his background in lending, commercial real estate, development, land use, and leasing to help clients navigate challenges in the areas of buying, selling, leasing, and financing commercial transactions and real property. He represents lenders and borrowers in real estate finance, asset-based loans, and other credit facilities both unsecured and secured with non-real property...
Glen uses his background in lending, commercial real estate, development, land use, and leasing to help clients navigate challenges in the areas of buying, selling, leasing, and financing commercial transactions and real property. He represents lenders and borrowers in real estate finance, asset-based loans, and other credit facilities both unsecured and secured with non-real property collateral. He has assisted clients with acquisition, development, marketing, sales, and leasing of numerous classifications of properties including industrial sites, medical facilities, power generation facilities, hotels, retail properties (big box and mall), office buildings, timber, renewable energy facilities, student housing projects, multi-family apartment communities, and residential condominium complexes. Glen regularly coordinates with environmental, bankruptcy, economic development, and tax incentive (including tax credit) professionals both inside and outside the firm to structure transactions to the client’s advantage.
Glen focuses on negotiating and documenting real estate and loan transactions. He has experience in financing real estate through mortgage financing with banks, life companies, and equity partners throughout the United States. He has worked to create and enforce declarations of covenants, conditions, and restrictions, perform road closing and title defense actions, and has extensive experience negotiating financing arrangements, purchase and sale agreements, lease agreements, cost-sharing agreements, development agreements, and reciprocal easement agreements.
Glen issues legal opinions regularly for the firm and title insurance policies as an agent of multiple national title insurance companies in connection with these transactions. He is a former co-chair of the national commercial real estate practice group. He currently serves on the firm’s Pro Bono Committee and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.
collateral. He has assisted clients with acquisition, development, marketing, sales, and leasing of numerous classifications of properties including industrial sites, medical facilities, power generation facilities, hotels, retail properties (big box and mall), office buildings, timber, renewable energy facilities, student housing projects, multi-family apartment communities, and residential condominium complexes. Glen regularly coordinates with environmental, bankruptcy, economic development, and tax incentive (including tax credit) professionals both inside and outside the firm to structure transactions to the client’s advantage.
Glen focuses on negotiating and documenting real estate and loan transactions. He has experience in financing real estate through mortgage financing with banks, life companies, and equity partners throughout the United States. He has worked to create and enforce declarations of covenants, conditions, and restrictions, perform road closing and title defense actions, and has extensive experience negotiating financing arrangements, purchase and sale agreements, lease agreements, cost-sharing agreements, development agreements, and reciprocal easement agreements.
Glen issues legal opinions regularly for the firm and title insurance policies as an agent of multiple national title insurance companies in connection with these transactions. He is a former co-chair of the national commercial real estate practice group. He currently serves on the firm’s Pro Bono Committee and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.
Experience
Representative Transactions
- Represent a seller of industrial warehouse facilities containing over 3 million square feet in a portfolio of 37 buildings
- Work with an institutional lender in restructuring $96,600,000 loans for student housing facilities at multiple campus and off campus locations
- Manage a lease portfolio of more than 50 manufacturing facilities throughout North America
- Represent a Fortune 500 company in the sale leaseback of its regional headquarters
- Represent a major national retailer in the acquisition and development (owned and build to suit leases) of more than 48 store locations
Experience
- Worked with clients, including lenders and developers, in various capacities, such as closing transactions, negotiating leases, and structuring, closing, and enforcing loans and workouts.
- Has been involved with various land use and government approval processes ranging from HUD Interstate Land Sales and Fannie Mae to local planning and zoning.
- Assisted various property owners’ associations and homeowners’ associations amend their by-laws and other governing documents, and helped such organizations obtain SBA financing to fund the reconstruction of association-owned dams
- Worked with firm lawyers on environmental, foreclosure, economic development, land use, and bankruptcy matters.
- Performed quiet title actions, title insurance claims defense, and been involved in negotiations involving tax credit based transactions, asset-based lending, loan participations, and transactions involving fee in lieu of tax, like-kind exchanges, sale-lease back, synthetic leases, wrap mortgages, and mezzanine financing.
- Has experience in the creation and enforcement of horizontal property regimes.
Previous Professional Experience
- Previous association with another South Carolina law firm
Education
- University of South Carolina School of Law, JD (1994)
- University of South Carolina, BS, Finance (1989)
Admissions
- South Carolina
Practice Areas
Industries
Representative Transactions
- Represent a seller of industrial warehouse facilities containing over 3 million square feet in a portfolio of 37 buildings
- Work with an institutional lender in restructuring $96,600,000 loans for student housing facilities at multiple campus and off campus locations
- Manage a lease portfolio of more than 50 manufacturing facilities throughout North America
- Represent a Fortune 500 company in the sale leaseback of its regional headquarters
- Represent a major national retailer in the acquisition and development (owned and build to suit leases) of more than 48 store locations
Experience
- Worked with clients, including lenders and developers, in various capacities, such as closing transactions, negotiating leases, and structuring, closing, and enforcing loans and workouts.
- Has been involved with various land use and government approval processes ranging from HUD Interstate Land Sales and Fannie Mae to local planning and zoning.
- Assisted various property owners’ associations and homeowners’ associations amend their by-laws and other governing documents, and helped such organizations obtain SBA financing to fund the reconstruction of association-owned dams
- Worked with firm lawyers on environmental, foreclosure, economic development, land use, and bankruptcy matters.
- Performed quiet title actions, title insurance claims defense, and been involved in negotiations involving tax credit based transactions, asset-based lending, loan participations, and transactions involving fee in lieu of tax, like-kind exchanges, sale-lease back, synthetic leases, wrap mortgages, and mezzanine financing.
- Has experience in the creation and enforcement of horizontal property regimes.
Previous Professional Experience
- Previous association with another South Carolina law firm
Media
Recognitions
- The Best Lawyers in America®, Banking and Finance Law (2024, 2025), Real Estate Law (2024, 2025)
Professional Activities
- South Carolina Bar Association
- Council Member, Real Estate Section of the South Carolina Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Richland County Bar Association
- Former Director, Palmetto Land Title Association
Community
- Executive Board Member, Boy Scouts of America Indian Waters Council
- Board Member, United Way of the Midlands
- Deacon, First Baptist Church
Glen uses his background in lending, commercial real estate, development, land use, and leasing to help clients navigate challenges in the areas of buying, selling, leasing, and financing commercial transactions and real property. He represents lenders and borrowers in real estate finance, asset-based loans, and other credit facilities both unsecured and secured with non-real property...
collateral. He has assisted clients with acquisition, development, marketing, sales, and leasing of numerous classifications of properties including industrial sites, medical facilities, power generation facilities, hotels, retail properties (big box and mall), office buildings, timber, renewable energy facilities, student housing projects, multi-family apartment communities, and residential condominium complexes. Glen regularly coordinates with environmental, bankruptcy, economic development, and tax incentive (including tax credit) professionals both inside and outside the firm to structure transactions to the client’s advantage.
Glen focuses on negotiating and documenting real estate and loan transactions. He has experience in financing real estate through mortgage financing with banks, life companies, and equity partners throughout the United States. He has worked to create and enforce declarations of covenants, conditions, and restrictions, perform road closing and title defense actions, and has extensive experience negotiating financing arrangements, purchase and sale agreements, lease agreements, cost-sharing agreements, development agreements, and reciprocal easement agreements.
Glen issues legal opinions regularly for the firm and title insurance policies as an agent of multiple national title insurance companies in connection with these transactions. He is a former co-chair of the national commercial real estate practice group. He currently serves on the firm’s Pro Bono Committee and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.
Experience
The following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.Representative Transactions
- Represent a seller of industrial warehouse facilities containing over 3 million square feet in a portfolio of 37 buildings
- Work with an institutional lender in restructuring $96,600,000 loans for student housing facilities at multiple campus and off campus locations
- Manage a lease portfolio of more than 50 manufacturing facilities throughout North America
- Represent a Fortune 500 company in the sale leaseback of its regional headquarters
- Represent a major national retailer in the acquisition and development (owned and build to suit leases) of more than 48 store locations
Experience
- Worked with clients, including lenders and developers, in various capacities, such as closing transactions, negotiating leases, and structuring, closing, and enforcing loans and workouts.
- Has been involved with various land use and government approval processes ranging from HUD Interstate Land Sales and Fannie Mae to local planning and zoning.
- Assisted various property owners’ associations and homeowners’ associations amend their by-laws and other governing documents, and helped such organizations obtain SBA financing to fund the reconstruction of association-owned dams
- Worked with firm lawyers on environmental, foreclosure, economic development, land use, and bankruptcy matters.
- Performed quiet title actions, title insurance claims defense, and been involved in negotiations involving tax credit based transactions, asset-based lending, loan participations, and transactions involving fee in lieu of tax, like-kind exchanges, sale-lease back, synthetic leases, wrap mortgages, and mezzanine financing.
- Has experience in the creation and enforcement of horizontal property regimes.
Previous Professional Experience
- Previous association with another South Carolina law firm
Education
- University of South Carolina School of Law, JD (1994)
- University of South Carolina, BS, Finance (1989)
Admissions
- South Carolina
Practice Areas
Industries
- The Best Lawyers in America®, Banking and Finance Law (2024, 2025), Real Estate Law (2024, 2025)
- South Carolina Bar Association
- Council Member, Real Estate Section of the South Carolina Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Richland County Bar Association
- Former Director, Palmetto Land Title Association
- Executive Board Member, Boy Scouts of America Indian Waters Council
- Board Member, United Way of the Midlands
- Deacon, First Baptist Church
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