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John G. "Jay" Brown II | vCard
Managing Partner - Real Estate Division
Before joining Olson, Good & Brown, Jay was a managing attorney for Buist, Byars & Taylor, LLC, and owned his own firm in Mount Pleasant, S.C. He also worked as an attorney for Justin O'Toole Lucey, P.A., and began his career clerking for the Hon. Irvin G. Condon in the Charleston Probate Court.
Raised in Mount Pleasant, Jay holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Clemson University and a law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law. He is admitted to practice in the state courts of South Carolina, the Federal District Court, the United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. Jay is a member of the South Carolina Bar Association and the Charleston County Bar Association. He is active in the community as a Committee Member for the East Cooper Chapter of the Coastal Conservation Association and as an officer in the East Cooper Sertoma Club. He lives in Mount Pleasant with his wife, Tricia, and their two children.
Jay’s primary focus is on transactional work as the managing partner for our real estate division. Over his career, Jay has worked closely with a number of national builder accounts as primary closing counsel and is familiar with the closing practices and demand for high-volume periods such as fiscal quarter and year ends. His transactional practice has included the acquisition, sale and financing of raw land, new construction and existing construction in both residential and commercial arenas.
I pride myself on not only serving my clients, but establishing relationships.
During his career, Jay was also involved in a variety of litigation matters, including a national product distribution case involving an international motorcycle manufacturer which allowed Jay the opportunity to depose motorcycle dealers across the nation. Jay has also managed complex financial litigation involving the telecommunications industry. This suit included complicated issues such as the usurping of accounts by employees of a parent entity. Other matters included construction litigation experience and employment matters including compensation structure disputes within national real estate companies.