James H. "Jeddie" Suddeth III
Developers rely on Jeddie Suddeth to clear a path through the complexities of real estate law. Successful real estate development must anticipate trends, understand the market and react with speed and certainty.
It helps to have a lawyer who leads at every step. Mr. Suddeth guides developers and lenders in residential, commercial and mixed-use, condominiums and subdivisions, and shopping center projects.
He brings a unique understanding of environmental issues, in part from knowledge acquired with his undergraduate degree in Natural Resources. He helps form real estate ventures and assists in closing site acquisitions and financings. As projects move forward, he prepares condominium and subdivision documents, sales contracts, leases and related documents.
Mr. Suddeth is skilled at forming for-profit and not-for-profit corporations and limited liability companies for real estate and other ventures.
Captive insurance companies are another area of concentration. Mr. Suddeth helps with the formation and redomestication of captive insurance companies and handles their annual regulatory and statutory compliance needs. He is actively involved in state and local captive insurance associations’ meetings.
RECENT MATTERS
- For a regional developer, Mr. Suddeth recently closed an $11 million acquisition and construction loan for an urban-infill project.
- He prepared legal documentation for a mixed-use urban-infill development in downtown Charleston.
- Mr. Suddeth redomesticated captive insurance companies from both onshore and off-shore domiciles.
A member of the Firm’s three-member Management Committee, Mr. Suddeth serves the Firm’s Charleston, SC office.
HONORS
In 2015, Mr. Suddeth received the Leadership in Law Award from South Carolina Lawyers Weekly. He also was the recipient of the University of South Carolina School of Law Alumni Foundation’s “Compleat Lawyer Silver Award” in 2012, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the legal community. In 2009, he was named to the Charleston Regional Business Journal's "Forty Under 40" leadership.
PUBLICATIONS
“The Ideal Redomestication,” Captive & ART Review (2005)
“I Can’t Have My Wages Garnisheeed!” 50 S.C.L. REV. 525 (1999)
Charleston, South Carolina 29402-0340
