Walter Nester is the Managing Shareholder of the Beaufort County Unit of the McNair Law Firm, which is comprised of offices in Hilton Head and Bluffton. Walter’s practice involves commercial business and real estate development and financing, including municipal, zoning, and condominium law, representing owners and developers before municipal boards, commissions, and councils, and commercial leasing.
Walter has extensive experience managing complex zoning and development issues with government boards, agencies, and municipalities. In connection with this work, Walter’s practice also involves the formation of business ownership entities, as well as representation of lenders and borrowers for commercial and development loans, loan workouts and loan acquisition.
Walter serves as general counsel to various large planned and club community owners’ associations and has considerable experience in the drafting, interpretation, and enforcement of covenants and restrictions and applicable governing documents. A Connecticut native, Walter is a graduate civil engineer and former Captain in the United States Marine Corps.