Bill's practice focuses on business and financial transactions, with an
emphasis in commercial lending, securities, securitization, structured
finance, business mergers, acquisitions and strategic ventures, real
estate, entity formation, contracts, credit recovery, legal opinions,
and other general business planning matters. Bill also has extensive
commercial litigation experience which compliments his business
practice.
Bill began his legal career in San Diego as a
commercial litigator at Baker & McKenzie, a prestigious
international law firm. Bill moved to Boise in 1993 for "quality of
life" reasons when he joined a prominent Idaho law firm and continued
his commercial litigation practice.
For seven years prior to
joining Givens Pursley as a partner, Bill was in-house General Counsel
and Vice President for AMRESCO Commercial Finance, Inc., a Boise based
commercial finance company that funded, securitized, and serviced, over
1.8 billion dollars in complex commercial finance transactions. As
General Counsel, Bill was responsible for all of the legal affairs of
the company, a responsibility that he accomplished through closing
transactions and resolving legal issues on a direct, hands-on basis, as
well as through managing a department of in-house attorneys and
attorneys at law firms throughout the country.
Bill was also
extensively involved in the business aspects of the company. This
business experience, combined with Bill's experience in managing legal
counsel, has provided him with a unique, practical perspective of the
legal needs facing business clients and what they expect of their
attorneys. This unique perspective, together with Bill's extensive
transactional and litigation experience, makes him particularly
qualified to handle the legal needs of business clients.