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Angie Godwin McEwen

  • Member, Executive Committee
  • Co-Chair, Associates Review Committee

Contact

​(205) 297-2232 Email Me Download vCard

Practice Areas

Angie focuses her practice on real estate law, business and commercial transactions, financial services and commercial lending from the firm’s Finance and Real Estate Group.

Biography – View PDF Bio

Associations

Bar Admissions

  • Alabama, 1999

Civic Involvement

  • Hands on Birmingham, Past President
  • Hands on Birmingham, Board of Directors, 2003-2010
  • Leadership Vestavia Hills, Past Director, Board of Directors
  • Leadership Vestavia Hills, Recruitment Committee, Past Chair

Distinctions

  • Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business
    • Real Estate (Alabama), 2018-2020
  • LEED® Green Associate accredited professional
  • Birmingham Business Journal
    • Best of the Bar, 2019
    • Top 40 Under 40, 2008
  • Best Lawyers in America®
    • Real Estate Law, 2019-2020
  • Leadership Vestavia Hills, Graduate, 2010
Chambers

Education & Honors

  • Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 1999
    • Executive Professional Authorities Editor, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
  • Birmingham-Southern College, B.A., Political Science-Sociology, magna cum laude, 1995
    • Phi Beta Kappa

Experience

  • Part of team representing a Fortune 100 retailer in negotiation of documents for construction of a 2.6 million square-foot import distribution center at Port of Mobile, Alabama.
  • Coordinated conveyance of real estate assets, including broadcast tower sites, as part of a media client's acquisition of 19 radio stations across a multi-state footprint.
  • Counsel to lender specializing in loans guaranteed by the United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, in connection with the financing of multifamily housing complexes secured by real property.
  • Represented purchaser of acute care hospitals in the acquisition of an interest in over fifty separate parcels of real estate, including physician clinics and home health facilities.
  • Counsel to nursing home owner and operator in the site acquisition, development and financing of new 117-bed skilled nursing facility and rehabilitation center.
  • Represent multi-national quarry owner in all aspects of property acquisition, including development of haul roads and nuisance avoidance measures. 
  • Represent owner of Red Mountain Park in assemblage of over 1,100 acres to be used for development of one of the largest urban parks in the country.
  • Counsel to conservation organization in the management and expenditure of over $30 million set aside in environmental consent decree.
  • ​Represent a land trust in the establishment of conservation easements to protect watershed properties and other open spaces, as well as landowners seeking tax benefits through the creation of conservation easements.

In the News

Papers, Presentations, & Publications

  • Author, "Alabama Lending Law: A Guide for Commercial Lenders and Businesses," Website of Commercial Financial Services Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, March 2005. 
  • Author, "Property Owners Can Use Easements for Tax Breaks," Birmingham Business Journal, November 2004. 
  • Speaker, "Fundamentals of Title and Conveyancing," Real Estate Titles, Conveyances and Unlawful Detainers, August 2004.
  • Speaker, "Annual Corporate Check-up: Five Steps to a Healthy and Prosperous New Fiscal Year," January 2004.
  • Author, "Contributions Can Benefit Donors," Birmingham Business Journal, December 2001. 
  • Speaker, "Issues in E-Business," Business Contracting in Alabama, Lorman Education Services, July 10, 2001. 
  • Speaker, "Buying Over the Internet," Purchasing Law in Alabama, Lorman Education Services, May 1, 2001.