| M. Craig Garner Jr. | |
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| Overview | Craig Garner joined McNair and has participated in various areas of the practice. He has primarily a transactions and business organization practice, with his largest industry concentrations being hospitals, financial institutions, and tax-exempt organizations. As Loss Prevention Counsel, he serves as the Firm’s risk manager and participates in educating the Firm’s lawyers on legal and ethical rulings and best practices.
He has developed extensive experience in health care transactions, commercial and real estate lending, financial institution regulatory matters, workers compensation insurance rate approvals, and museum law. Craig was lead counsel for one of the hospitals in a joint arrangement between a public hospital and a private religious hospital to consolidate their operations into a new tax-exempt entity. He has represented hospitals in various types of matters, including joint arrangements with physicians and False Claims Act investigations.
Craig has served as counsel for the borrower in tax-exempt financings and in interest rate swap transactions. He has formed new banks, has handled complex loan workouts and bank mergers and acquisitions, and has a general business transaction practice involving mergers/sales/acquisitions of businesses, commercial real estate, franchises and other contract matters, and tax-exempt corporations. He has represented attorneys in professional liability claims, and has presented anti-trust compliance seminars and other training seminars for clients.
He has written articles for the Family Business Forum Journal and the South Carolina Bankers Association.
Craig has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2008, and has been listed in this publication each year since 2005. Craig was also selected to be included in the inaugural edition of Guide to the Leading US Healthcare Lawyers (copyright 2005 by Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC). |
| | | Recent Engagements |
- Counsel to tax-exempt healthcare borrower in more than $500,000,000 tax exempt bonds issued since mid-1990’s and related interest rate swaps
- Lead counsel in forming multiple banks
- Lead counsel in multiple bank mergers and branch acquisitions/sales
- Lead lender’s counsel in corporate and commercial loans and workouts
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| | | Awards and Recognition |
- The Best Lawyers in America® 2008 (Financial Institutions and Transactions Law, Healthcare Law)
- Guide to Leading US Healthcare Lawyers
- Distinguished Leadership Award from National Association for Community Leadership (2000)
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| | | Professional and Community Involvement |
- Past Chair ('99 - '04), Board Member ('96 - present) and Alumnus (’96) - Leadership South Carolina
- Board, Audit Committee Member, and Trust Committee Chair - First Citizens Bancorporation and First Citizens Bank & Trust
- Vice Chair and Board Member - South Carolina Higher Education Foundation
- Chair - SC Bar Building Task Force
- Charter member - Columbia Bank Counsel Group
- Former Vice Chair and Board Member - Domestic Abuse Center of Seattle
- Former Vice Chair and Board Member - Make-A-Wish Foundation of South Carolina
- Former member, United Way of the Midlands, Allocation Panel
- Former Deacon and Chairman of Budget & Finance Committee - Eastminster Presbyterian Church
- Former Chair - Davidson Alumni Association, Columbia Chapter
- Former Chair - Davidson Alumni Admissions Program, Columbia Chapter
- Former Board Member - South Carolina Family Business Forum
- Former Chair - Corporate Law Section of SC Bar
- General Counsel, Secretary, and Member of various Board committees of Brookgreen Gardens
- Speaker, Mid-Year Meeting of the South Carolina Bar
- Faculty member on Continuing Legal Education seminars of the South Carolina Bar and of other sponsors.
He is also a member of the American Health Lawyers Association; the American Bar Association, where he is a member of the Business Law, Litigation, and Real Property, Probate and Trust sections; the Richland County Bar Association; and the Columbia Bank Counsel Association, of which he was a founding member.
Craig was appointed to the South Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee’s Corporate Code Revision Study Committee and was an editor of the South Carolina Corporate Law Practice Manual.
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