Welcome to a new approach to serving clients

King Kozlarek Root is a law firm with a vision to bring to life a new, modern way of practicing law. Focused primarily on positively contributing to the communities around us, we are committed to approaching each client matter with careful attention and take pride in simplifying unique and complex legal situations, propelling our clients forward toward success and opportunity. With decades of experience, we service hundreds of clients and facilitate billions of dollars in bonds, investments, and transactions, we provide clients with confidence and a trusted partner for their legal needs.

Practice Areas

With offices in Greenville, SC, and Bainbridge, GA, and licensed to practice law in VA, NC, SC, and GA, we are able to counsel clients throughout the Southeast and beyond, wherever our clients’ business needs take them.

Government

We represent governments of all sizes and manners by offering counsel for their legal needs and creating better communities through planned growth efforts. Our services include securing financing, underwriting, and structuring transactions, development agreements, planning and zoning, real estate, and general counsel services.

Public Finance

We regularly represent state and local governments, economic development authorities, and other special-purpose public entites in the planning, underwriting, issuance, and delivery of bonds and other financial transactions. We serve as bond counsel, disclosure counsel, tax counsel, and underwriters counsel on publicly offered bond issues, as well as bond counsel and bank and liquidity provider counsel in direct placements.

Commercial Finance

We represent commercial banks, institutional lenders, specialty finance companies, REITs, developers, insurance companies, and other lenders, along with corporate and non-corporate borrowers in a variety of areas, including manufacturing and industrial, commercial real estate and development, project finance, and syndicated finance.

Real Estate

We represent commercial banks, institutional lenders, specialty finance companies, REITs, developers, insurance companies, and other lenders, along with corporate and non-corporate borrowers in a variety of areas, including manufacturing and industrial, commercial real estate and development, project finance and syndicated finance.

Corporate

We represent privately-held companies in a variety of corporate transactions, including formation and capitalization, stock and asset purchases and sales, mergers, spin-offs, consolidations and roll-ups, management buy-outs, joint ventures, and corporate recapitalizations, reorganizations, and restructurings.

General Counsel

Acting as outside general counsel for corporate and governmental clients, we advise on all manner of governance, financing and project planning, budgeting, and execution. We monitor our clients’ compliance with applicable ethics rules and procedures, respond to ethical issues as they arise, and implement best practices in our clients’ policies for risk management.

Civil Litigation

Dedicated to resolving clients' legal disputes, whether in a state or federal courtroom, before an administrative tribunal or in arbitration, we combine trial advocacy with well-honed negotiating skills to aggressively seek the outcome clients want. Because of our broad knowledge and experience across many areas of law, King Kozlarek Root is equipped to handle a wide variety of cases across many industries, business practices and jurisdictions

Founding Partners

Three friends combined their talents for the purpose of creating a new law firm dedicated to achieving client goals through their shared vision, experience, and relationships in finance, government, and industry.

Chris King

Member, Chief Strategy Officer

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Michael Kozlarek

Managing Member

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David A. Root

Member

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