Business/Corporate

• Kentucky, 1989

• Law Clerk to the  Hon. Robert F. Chapman, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

• Yale Law School, J.D., 1983
• Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1980, summa cum laude

Bill is a member of Frost Brown Todd LLC’s Louisville office. His practice focuses on securities and corporate law with an emphasis on venture capital and private equity financing, public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. In this capacity, he has represented numerous businesses, from start-ups to public companies.

He has also represented a number of venture capital funds and is a member of the Board of Directors of Commonwealth Seed Capital, LLC. He served on the KBA Committee which drafted the Kentucky Limited Liability Company Act and registered limited liability partnership legislation. Bill has written and spoken on numerous continuing legal education topics and was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Louisville Law School in 1995 (Corporate Finance) and in 1999 (Venture Capital) and received the Gordon Davidson Teaching Award from the University of Louisville. Bill is the Chairman of the Frost Brown Todd emerging businesses and venture capital group. He was named in the The Best Lawyers in America® for 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 and was ranked in Chambers USA®, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business for the same years.

Bill served as a law clerk for the Hon. Robert F. Chapman, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, summa cum laude, and Yale Law School.

Experience

Serve on KBA Committee which drafted the Kentucky Limited Liability Company Act and registered limited liability partnership legislation

Author and speaker:  numerous continuing legal education topics

University of Louisville Law School - Adjunct Professor of Law (Corporate Finance)

Representative Experience

Represented management in multiple private equity recapitalization transactions

Completed over 50 mergers and acquisitions transactions

Formed over 10 private equity and venture capital funds

Completed over 100 seed and venture capital financing transactions

Served as counsel on multiple underwritten public offerings

Served as legal counsel on $2 billion healthcare combination

• The Best Lawyers in America®  2008-2013
• Selected for inclusion in Kentucky Super Lawyers® 2008-2011
• Chambers USA® America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2008-2013
• AV® Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®

• American Bar Association
• Kentucky Bar Association
• Louisville Bar Association

Past

• Louisville Science Center, Board of Directors
• The Venture Club of Louisville, Member, Corporate Secretary
• University of Louisville School of Business Entrepreneurship Council, Member
• Kentucky Chapter of Association of Capital Growth, General Counsel
• Greater Louisville Inc. Entrepreneurship Council, Member
• Commonwealth Seed Capital Fund, Member, Board of Directors
• Louisville Police Foundation, General Counsel

Adapting to Life in the Private Equity World, ACG Corporate Growth Magazine