Stephanie Yarbrough is a partner in King & Spalding’s Corporate, Finance and Investments practice group. She focuses her practice on advising domestic and international companies seeking to expand or relocate in the United States, noting that one of the biggest assets she brings to clients is her ability to navigate relationships with local and state governmental leadership and decision makers.

Stephanie has extensive experience advising companies across a wide range of industries, including corporate headquarters, manufacturing, datacenters, distribution and large office deals. She has extensive experience in the automotive sector, the life sciences sector and aviation.

She works with new and expanding businesses in identifying and negotiating all aspects of a discretionary incentive package, advocating before the proper governmental entities during all phases of the incentive approval process. She negotiates and structures large incentive packages on behalf of global companies on a daily basis. Stephanie also advises clients in general tax and corporate matters, noting that her deep experience in public company mergers and acquisitions makes her well suited to run some of the largest deals in the country. Her efforts on behalf of clients have led to the creation of hundreds of thousands of new jobs and billions of dollars in capital investment.

Additionally, Stephanie is brought in regularly by leading site selection consulting firms and other global law firms as local counsel on economic development deals where her knowledge and tenacity can be critical to getting deals done. She regularly counsels companies on all aspects of the deal – incentives, tax, real estate, corporate, construction, IP/patent, litigation, employment, immigration, environmental, land use/planning/zoning. Her legal work often involves foreign based companies and is evenly split between landlord/developer representation and tenant/end user representation. 

As a recognized thought leader in the economic development space, she is frequently sought after to speak at local, national and global industry conferences and regularly publishes articles and insights.

Stephanie is individually ranked for Corporate/M&A & Private Equity – Chambers USA (District of Columbia) and as a “Super Lawyer” of The Best Lawyers in America for her exceptional work in Economic Development Law.

Admitted to practice in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C.

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