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.
Overview
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.
Practice Areas
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.
- Represented a utility-scale solar and energy storage company in its entrance into the solar power market in the State of Alabama by negotiating site control agreements and associated easements.
- Served as local counsel to the lenders in a $95+ million financing for the development of a 100 Megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) energy-generating facility in the State of Alabama.
- Counsel to a lender specializing in the financing of multifamily housing complexes throughout the United States, with a focus on loans guaranteed by the USDA, Rural Development, through its Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing Loan Program.
- Serve as general outside counsel in Alabama for a publicly traded real estate developer that has developed residential communities in over 20 states.
- 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.
- 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.
Distinctions
- Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business
- Real Estate (Alabama), 2018-2024
- Fellow, American College of Mortgage Attorneys
- LEED® Green Associate accredited professional
- Birmingham Business Journal
- Who’s Who in Law, 2020, 2024
- Best of the Bar, 2019
- Top 40 Under 40, 2008
- Best Lawyers in America®
- Real Estate Law, 2019-2025
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), 2024-2025
- Leadership Vestavia Hills, Graduate, 2010
Bar Admissions
- Alabama, 1999
Education
- 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
Associations
- American Bar Association
- Young Lawyers Division
- Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
- Past Chair
- Executive Subcommittee
- Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
- Young Lawyers Division
- Alabama State Bar Association
- Birmingham Bar Association
- Women Lawyers Section
- Executive Board
- Past Member
- Executive Board
- Women Lawyers Section
- Birmingham CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women)
- International Council of Shopping Centers
Papers, Presentations & Publications
- Guest, "Angie McEwen of Butler Snow talks about the law firm's growth, particularly in the Huntsville area," Business Alabama Podcast, July 31, 2023.
Civic Involvement
- Hands on Birmingham, Past President
- Hands on Birmingham, Board of Directors, 200-2010
- Leadership Vestavia Hills, Past Director, Board of Directors
- Leadership Vestavia Hills, Recruitment Committee, Past Chair
- Vestavia Hills Chamber of Commerce
- Past Chair
- Community Affairs, Past Chair
- Ambassador Program, Past Chair