Profile

Michael Kozlarek focuses his practice on the areas of public finance and economic development for municipalities and counties. In addition to his practice at Parker Poe, Mr. Kozlarek teaches Legal Drafting as an adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law.

Prior to joining Parker Poe, Mr. Kozlarek served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable William L. Howard, Sr. at the South Carolina Court of Appeals, an adjunct professor at Horry-Georgetown Technical College, a commercial intern to the United States Foreign Commercial Service and a law clerk to the South Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee.

In August 2003, Mr. Kozlarek was honorably discharged from six years of service in the South Carolina Army National Guard.

Experience Highlights

• Assisting counties, municipalities, school districts, housing authorities and other entities in the issuance of bonds and other instruments to fund capital projects and operating expenses
• Advising counties in all aspects of economic development, including the creation of multi-county industrial parks and negotiation of the fee-in-lieu of tax incentive
• Counseling governmental clients on the utilization of tax increment finance and special assessment districts to create sources of revenue to pay for new infrastructure
• Consulting with private industry concerning South Carolina property tax law
• Representing both foreign and domestic companies in the negotiation of economic development incentives in the Carolinas
• Representing governmental clients and private industry regarding the use of South Carolina's tax-exempt bond program and the federal low income housing tax credit program to finance housing developments

News

• Parker Poe Attorneys Named SC Super Lawyers for 2012
  March 28, 2012
• Parker Poe Names Four New Partners
  January 5, 2010
• South Carolina State Housing Financing and Development Authority Extends Important Dates for Low Income Housing Tax Credit Recipients
  October 22, 2008
• Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP is Pleased to Announce the Addition of Three Attorneys in Our Columbia Office
  June 2, 2004