Kelly Frame, Esq

Kelly is a Charleston corporate lawyer, where he serves as both outside general counsel and strategic advisor for business clients as they navigate important legal and business decisions and challenges in their respective business industries.  With a focus on representing entrepreneurs, professionals, and privately-held businesses, Kelly’s clients seek his legal counsel with both day-to-day legal issues and complex business matters.

Kelly has over a decade of experience in handling business law and corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (asset purchases and business sales), contract law, business organizations and reorganizations, corporate governance, trademarks, and other business transactions.  He has also formed and restructured various corporate entities, including corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies, and has advised clients with respect to their business operations, entity selection, and the admission of new owners (passive and active) in connection with their respective corporate entities.

Kelly integrates his knowledge and experience of the law with a business-minded, entrepreneurial approach to legal issues and strives to minimize risk and add value wherever possible.

In his early years, Kelly spent summers in Florida and winters in Park City, Utah. Besides skiing and surfing, he enjoys playing soccer, golf and tennis. Additionally, Kelly Frame studied international law in Sydney, Australia, traveled Central and South America, Indonesia and Southeast Asia, and worked with Habitat for Humanity, building houses in Nicaragua.

Kelly focuses his practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, business organizations and re-organizations, contract development and negotiation, and intellectual property, specifically trademarks.

Whether the legal matter involves a straight forward trademark registration or a business acquisition, Kelly’s mission as a Charleston corporate lawyer is to provide affordable, accessible, and personalized business counsel to all of his clients.  Like our entire team, Kelly firmly believes in developing lasting, successful client relationships with all of the firm’s business and entrepreneurial clients.