REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
William’s extensive representative experience includes:
- Representing various lenders, master servicers, primary servicers and special servicers in transactions involving the origination of mortgage loans, mezzanine financing, post-closing modifications of securitized loans, defeasances, restructuring of loans, foreclosures and workouts.
- Representing U.S. and foreign clients in a wide variety of local and multi-state commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions, sales, leases and project financing.
PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS
- Fellow, American Bar Foundation
- Named among the “Legal Elite” by Georgia Trend magazine (2006-2007)
- Selected for inclusion in Georgia Super Lawyers® (2007-2012)
- Named to The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of real estate law (2009-2013) and structured finance law (2009-2010)
- Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the area of real estate, Georgia section (2008)
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Member, American Bar Association
- Vice-chair, Securitization and Special Financing Techniques Committee, Real Property Section, American Bar Association
- Member, State Bar of Georgia
- Member, Atlanta Bar Association
- Member, Mortgage Bankers Association
- Member, Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Finance Council
RECENT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Speaker, “Bridging the Gap: My Loan is Due, Now What Do I Do?” American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, Spring CLE Symposia (May 3, 2013)
- Speaker, “Top 10 for 2012: 10 Pending Developments All Wealth Management/ Compliance Lawyers Should Be Watching,” Wealth Management/HIMCO Law and Compliance Law Day, Hartford, Connecticut (March 2, 2012)
- Speaker, “Roundtable: Hot Topic in Investments,” Wealth Management/HIMCO Law and Compliance Law Day, Hartford, Connecticut (March 2, 2012)
- Moderator, “Introduction to Mezzanine Lending,” American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, Continuing Legal Education Program (April 2010)
- Speaker, “IRS Guidance on Commercial Mortgage Loan Modifications: False Hope or New Start?,” American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, Continuing Legal Education Program (April 2010)
- Speaker, “Real Estate Law: No Commercial Break,” American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, Continuing Legal Education Program (January 2010)
- Speaker, “Updated IRS Guidance on Commercial Mortgage Loan Modifications: False Hope or New Start?,” ABA Real Estate Financing Group Call (January 11, 2010)
- Speaker, “An Introduction to Securitized Lending,” The American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, Essential Issues in Commercial Real Estate Law Teleconference Series (November 2008)
- Speaker, “Danger Will Robinson: An Introduction to Securitized Lending,” The American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, 19th Annual Spring Symposia, Washington, D.C. (May 2008)
- Speaker, “Nuts and Bolts of Commercial Loan Defeasance,” Southern California Income Property Lending Conference, Los Angeles, California (March 2007)
- Speaker, “Introduction to Defeasance,” The American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, Fall CLE Meeting, San Francisco, California (September 2005)
- Speaker, “Introduction to Bankruptcy, Foreclosure and Receivership,” In-House Client CLE, Atlanta, Georgia
