Stephanie Yarbrough

Stephanie Yarbrough focuses her practice on advising domestic and international companies seeking to expand or relocate in the US, helping her clients navigate relationships with local and state governmental leadership and decision makers. She advises companies in various industries, including corporate headquarters, manufacturing, data centers, distribution, and large offices, and she has extensive experience in the automotive, life sciences, and aviation sectors.

Stephanie 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 daily. Stephanie also advises clients in general tax and corporate matters, her deep experience in public company mergers and acquisitions positioning her 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 consulting firms and other law firms as 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, intellectual property (IP)/patent, litigation, employment, immigration, environmental, and 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.