Megan Farley

PARTNER

Megan Farley is a partner at Allen Stahl & Kilbourne, PLLC where she focuses her practice on business, nonprofit, alcoholic beverage law, intellectual property (trademark) law, and creditor rights.

She regularly advises business clients on a range of matters from formation, contracts, commercial lease review and negotiation, mergers and acquisitions, succession planning, applying for and maintaining trademark registration, and other business operational matters. Megan also assists craft beverage business clients with federal, state, and local ABC permitting, compliance, contracting, intellectual property licensing, and through the nuances of buying and selling ABC-permitted businesses.

Megan currently sits on the board of directors for the North Carolina Craft Beverage Museum and previously sat on the board of directors for Invest Collegiate Imagine charter school. Her practical nonprofit experience helps her guide nonprofit clients through the unique challenges they face. In addition to advising nonprofit clients, Megan provides workshops for boards and facilitates strategic planning meetings to assist nonprofits in defining clear goals and strategies to further their missions.

Before joining the firm in 2016, Megan worked in-house for a regional financial institution where she gained experience assisting lenders with negotiating and preparing loan workouts with borrowers, foreclosures, bankruptcies, collection matters, and reviewing and revising loan documentation. She continues to assist financial institutions with these matters today.

Megan is licensed to practice law in North Carolina and Florida.

Megan has called Asheville home since 2011. Outside the office, you can find Megan spending time with her family, hiking, gardening, or traveling.

Professional Associations and Memberships:

• North Carolina State Bar (2013)

• U.S. District Court Western District of North Carolina (2016)

• Florida State Bar (2011)

• North Carolina Bar Association

• Buncombe County Bar

• Board of Directors - North Carolina Craft Beverage Museum, 2022-present

• Board of Directors - Invest Collegiate Charter Schools, 2015-2017

Workshops and Seminars:

• Board of Directors 101 for Nonprofits (2018)

• North Carolina Craft Brewers Conference

  • Strange Brew! What You Need to know about Near Beer, Almost Beer, Not Quite Beer, and other Alternative Beverages in the Brewery Space (2022)

  • Alternative Beverages - Strategies for Permitting and Understanding Regulations (2024)

• North Carolina Association of Municipal Attorneys’ Summer Conference - An Overview of Alcohol Beverage Control Law (2022)

• Strategic Planning Meetings

  • North Carolina Craft Beverage Museum (2023, 2024)