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Mayleng S. Watson
Associate 
201 North Tryon Street
mwatson@mcguirewoods.comCharlotte, North Carolina 28202 F: 704.343.2300    |
Ms. Watson regularly represents corporations, developers, lenders and government entities in the purchase and sale, development, lease and finance of office, retail, industrial, residential, institutional and mixed use properties. She has advised clients in such diverse areas as the sale of air rights, the acquisition of railroad rights-of-way, and the construction of zero lot line developments.
- Represented one of the nation's largest cable operators in the lease and purchase of office facilities, retail service centers and hub sites in several states, including Texas, Ohio, New York, South Carolina and North Carolina.
- Represented one of the nation's largest school districts in the acquisition and rezoning of elementary, middle and high school sites.
- Served as borrower's local counsel in the $935 million acquisition financing of a regional hotel chain.
- Represented one of the world's largest financial institutions in the purchase and development of new banking centers, addressing cross-easement, eminent domain and other development issues.
- Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
- Rising Star Participant, Georgetown University Law Center Advanced Commercial Lending Institute, 2007
- Associate, Helms Mulliss & Wicker, PLLC, Charlotte, North Carolina
- "Landlord-Tenant Law: Leases, Evictions & Litigation," Sterling Education Services Seminar, 2010
- "Drafting and Negotiating North Carolina Commercial Real Estate Leases," National Business Institute Seminar, 2005
- CoreNet Global
- Urban Land Institute (ULI)
- Real Property Section, Mecklenburg County Bar
- Charlotte Women's Bar Association
- Vice Chair, United Way Community Building Council, 2008-2009
- Workforce Initiative for Supportive Housing
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EDUCATION University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, J.D., with Honors, 2001
Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, B.A., summa cum laude, 1998
ADMITTED North Carolina 2001 South Carolina 2003 |