Van Williamson represents business owners, investors, developers and privately held companies in complex business and real estate transactions and serves as fractional general counsel to select companies.
A complex transaction cannot be evaluated one provision at a time.
Van Williamson represents clients in complex business and real estate transactions involving ownership, financing, real property, risk allocation and the practical issues that determine whether a deal works.
The approach is practical: understand the client's objective, identify the risks that matter, negotiate effectively and move the transaction toward closing.
Representation of business owners, investors and privately held companies in acquisitions, dispositions and other significant transactions.
Business purchases and sales · LLC and partnership transactions · Equity and ownership arrangements · Investment transactions · Commercial agreements · Financing · Restructurings · Governance and control matters
Explore this practiceRepresentation in sophisticated commercial and investment real estate matters from structuring and diligence through negotiation and closing.
Acquisitions and dispositions · Purchase and sale agreements · Ground leases · Commercial leasing · Development transactions · Financing · Easements and access · Title matters · Owner financing · Joint ventures
Explore this practiceOngoing senior legal counsel for privately held companies that need experienced judgment and continuity without adding a full-time general counsel.
Strategic legal advice · Contract negotiation · Transaction oversight · Ownership and governance issues · Risk assessment · Outside counsel coordination · Executive and owner counsel
Explore this practiceThe goal is not to make a transaction more complicated. It is to make a complicated transaction work.
For privately held companies, legal issues rarely arrive one at a time.
A significant contract can implicate financing, ownership, real estate, operations and risk at the same time. Fractional general counsel engagements provide an ongoing legal relationship with someone who understands the company, its owners and its objectives.
The role can include strategic legal advice, negotiation of important contracts and transactions, governance and ownership matters, coordination of specialized outside counsel, and direct counsel to owners and senior management.
Fractional general counsel can make sense when the business has recurring sophisticated legal needs but does not require, or does not want to build, a full-time internal legal function.
Engagement scope and availability are determined case by case.
Representative matters are described generally to preserve client confidentiality.
Sophisticated legal work is often less about finding a clause and more about understanding how the entire transaction fits together.
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