Darren G. Meadows

member

Telephone:
Fax:

(706) 828-2015
(706) 849-5115

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Augusta Office
801 Broad Street, 7th floor
Augusta, GA 30901

Practice Areas

Commercial Acquisitions, Development and Leasing
Eminent Domain and Condemnation
Environmental Real Estate
Land Use and Zoning
Local Government Law

Commercial Loan Workouts and Foreclosures
Environmental Litigation
Environmental Transactional and Regulatory Issues
Lease and Real Estate Disputes
Residential and Commercial Borrowing/Lending

Darren practices in the areas of real estate, corporate, transactional and local government law, specializing in environmental matters. He represents buyers, sellers, and lenders in real estate transactions and related matters, including zoning and construction applications and permits. He also advises and represents individual and corporate clients and their interests before state and federal regulatory agencies, as well as in negotiations and disputes with private parties.

His extensive real estate experience includes the coordination and review of title research for the acquisition of two regional water reservoirs encompassing several thousand acres and personally conducting title research in over half of Georgia’s 159 Counties. Darren employs both business and environmental expertise in coordinating and overseeing permit applications, due diligence efforts for real estate and corporate transactions, and managing both long and short-term environmental remediation projects. He has experience in soil erosion and storm water, wetlands, underground storage tanks (USTs) and above ground storage tanks (ASTs), hazardous waste, biomedical waste, solid waste, asbestos, waste water, water use permits (drinking water and irrigation), and air protection issues. Darren has facilitated the remediation and resale of numerous previously contaminated “Brownfield” properties, guiding the parties and their lenders through the processes available to protect them from liability.

Education

University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, 1990, B.A.
Georgia State University College of Law, 1994, J.D.
Honors: Environmental Law Society President

Professional Experience

Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD)

Hazardous Waste Branch Atlanta, Georgia In House Counsel
Compliance Facilitator with Browning-Ferris Industries’ Atlanta

Landfill
Legislative Attache in the Georgia General Assembly

Professional associations

American Bar Association
Augusta Bar Association
Chicago Title Insurance Company, Agent
First American Title Insurance Company, Agent
Georgia EPD Brownfields Advisory Panel
Lawyers Title Insurance Company, Agent
State Bar of Georgia Environmental Section Member, Prior At Large Board Member
State Bar of Georgia Real Estate Section Member

civic associations

Glanzmann’s Foundation Board Member
Medical Mission Clinic Board Member

Admissions

State Bar of Georgia