Meet Philip

Philip Land is a business lawyer. His clients include company owners, real estate developers, investment funds and international businesses. He strives to provide practical solutions to complex legal matters.

EXPERIENCE

• •  Mergers and acquisitions
• •  Tax Incentives and Credits
• •  Commercial Transactions
• •  CFIUS compliance for Greenfield and M&A
• •  Outside Corporate Counsel to international manufacturers
• •  Tax efficient entity structuring for domestic and international businesses
• •  General advice and counsel regarding asset protection, risk mitigation, dispute resolution and strategic growth

Prior to joining Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, Philip was a Regional Outreach Director for a United States Senator. In this role, he served as the Senator’s liaison to various constituent groups, including public and private economic development entities, utility providers, municipalities, trade associations and private businesses. He also helped projects receive funding from the U.S. Economic Development Administration.

• Georgetown University Law Center, Executive LL.M., Taxation, 2020
• University of South Carolina, J.D., 2011
• Hampden-Sydney College, B.A., 2006

• South Carolina, 2011
• District of Columbia, 2022
• New York, 2023

• Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships) (2021-2025), Corporate Law (2021-2025) and Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2021-2025)
• Greenville Business Magazine “Legal Elite of the Upstate” Banking and Finance Law (2019), Business Litigation (2020-2021), Commercial Real Estate Law (2021), Corporate Law – Business Organizations (2022-2023), Corporate Law - Mergers & Acquisitions (2017-2018, 2020-2023), Corporate Law – Securities (2022-2023), Economic Development (2022-2023), Government Relations Law (2016, 2020-2021) and International Law (2020, 2022-2024)
• University of South Carolina School of Law Bronze Medallion 2011 Compleat Lawyer Award and 2011 Claud Sapp Award

• South Carolina Bar
• Southern Economic Development Council, FDI Committee Member (2023-Present)
• South Carolina Economic Developers' Association
• District of Columbia Bar, International Law Community, Foreign Investment and Finance Committee Co-Chair (2023-Present)
• Japan-America Association of South Carolina (JAASC)

• “Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States Update,” Southern Economic Development Council, September 26, 2024
• “Committee for Foreign Direct Investment in the United States Update,” Southern Economic Development Council 2023 Annual Conference, Williamsburg, VA, August 14, 2023
• “Proposed Bill Could Increase CFIUS Jurisdiction, Further Restrict FDI,” HSB Blog, July 31, 2023
• “What does the new CFIUS proposed rule mean for foreign investment?,” HSB Blog, June 20, 2023
• Co-author of “FDI Oversight: Dawn of a New Era?,” National Security Law Journal, Volume 10, Issue 1, January 6, 2023
• “CFIUS Compliance Takes Form,” GGI Real Estate News, No. 15, Autumn 2022 and HSB Blog, June 20, 2022
• “The Limitations of SC’s New Affordable Housing Tax Credit,” Upstate Business Journal, August 26, 2021
• “Are Incentives for Mixed-Use Developments Legitimate?” Upstate Business Journal, July 30, 2020
• “Tax Incentives/Economic Development,” Greenville County Bar “Year-End” CLE, Greenville, SC, February 7, 2020
• “The Re-Emergence of the C-Corporation,” HSB 2019 Corporate Law for Accountants Seminar Series
• "The Nuts and Bolts of Economic Development Incentives," South Carolina Economic Development Institute, North Augusta, SC, August 8, 2019
• "Keeping the Walls Up: Tips for Avoiding Amalgamation," HSB 2018 Corporate Law for Accountants Seminar Series
• "Exclusion from New Tariffs on Chinese Goods," GGI International Tax Newsletter, Autumn 2018