HunterMaclean's Convenience Store and Gas Station Specialty Group offers a diverse team of lawyers to tackle the broad range of issues this specific industry faces. Our Group actively represents local, regional and national developers, owners and operators of convenience stores, gas stations and travel centers within Georgia and South Carolina. Our multi-disciplinary team of lawyers brings together the benefit of many years of experience in the areas of: real estate, finance, leasing, franchise, environmental, corporate, employment, corporate tax, real estate tax, zoning, land use, permitting, premises liability and litigation.  The lawyers within our Convenience Store and Gas Station Specialty Group are devoted to providing our clients with the skills and know-how required in all aspects of the purchase, financing, sale, development and operation of their convenience stores, gas stations and travel centers.

Representative Engagements:

• Counsel to national convenience store in the acquisition of 22 leasehold and real property sites across Georgia and South Carolina, including legal issues related to the assignment/transfer of environmental permits.
• Counsel to regional convenience store in the re-zoning of development sites, site plan approval to allow for digital signage, halide lighting, as well as overall site development.
• Counsel to local convenience store in litigation over client's multi-million dollar store which was condemned by South Carolina Department of Transportation.
• Counsel to local convenience store handling registration, permitting, remediation, and restoration matters related to underground storage tanks.
• Counsel to owner of multiple sites leased by national convenience stores and travel centers.
• Counsel to national lenders in commercial financing and sale leasebacks across the United States involving gas stations and convenience stores.
• Counsel to franchisees with regard to financing and franchise matters.
  Counsel to national gas station regarding law suit in which a favorable determination was obtained in an FLSA case affirming that a former store manager was properly classified for wage/hour purposes and therefore exempt from overtime.
• Counsel to regional and national gas stations handling litigation matters such as lease disputes, partnership disputes, and fuel distribution disputes.
• Counsel to national gas station regarding law suit in which a favorable determination was obtained in a premises liability case involving the wrongful death of a patron.
• Counsel to regional convenience store in the arbitration of construction disputes.
  Counsel to regional convenience store in litigation involving loan requirements and insurance coverage.
• Counsel to regional convenience store in the negotiation of fuel supply agreements.
• A broad range of transactions, including: $100,000.00 to $35 million in convenience store and/or gas station real property, leasehold, asset, inventory and equipment acquisitions, dispositions and like kind exchanges; single property transactions to 22 site portfolios; multi-million dollar financing and sale leaseback transactions; subject property locations include Georgia, South Carolina, as well as multi-state portfolios across the United States.

Trade Association Memberships:

• Georgia Association of Convenience Stores
• South Carolina Association of Convenience Stores