Bill specializes in mergers and acquisitions, general corporate and commercial transactions, private equity, and debt and equity finance.
Bill has been involved with the founding and growth of new ventures, has taken companies public, and has acquired, sold, financed and combined many others along the way. Bill’s transactions have also included cross border elements. His diverse industry experience includes advertising and digital media, wealth management and financial services, technology consulting, business services, cannabis industry, direct marketing, manufacturing, distribution, food, health care services, medical devices, retail and transportation.
Bill is a seasoned deal attorney, who for over thirty years has helped many clients successfully complete a variety of public and private transactions and successfully navigate a variety of business and legal challenges.
Bill regularly provides responsive, thoughtful and effective legal and business advice to the leaders of the Business enterprises in a wide range of sizes and industries, often acting as the client's principal legal counsel.
Representative Experience
- Represented Solidion Technology, Inc. (“Solidion”), a leading advanced battery technology solutions provider, in the pricing of a private placement totaling $3.85 million. In connection with the private placement, Solidion will issue units, each consisting of one share of common stock, two common warrants each exercisable for one share of common stock, and one common warrant at an exercise price of $0.0001 to purchase such amount of shares of common stock as will be determined on the relevant reset date.
- Represented Honeycomb Battery Company, an electric vehicle battery technology company carved out from its parent Global Graphene Group, Inc., in its completed business combination with Nubia Brand International Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, to form a new Nasdaq-listed company known as Solidion Technology, Inc., including restricted securities issuances and corporate governance matters.
- Represented SpringBig Holdings, Inc. (“springbig”) (NASDAQ: SBIG), a leading provider of SaaS-based marketing solutions, consumer mobile app experiences, and omnichannel loyalty programs to the cannabis industry, in the closing of a public offering of 13,061,014 shares of its common stock at an at-the-market public offering price of $0.3037. The offering raised approximately $3 million in gross cash proceeds and, in addition, approximately $1.0 million of existing convertible notes were cancelled in exchange for shares in the offering at the public offering price, which springbig intends to use for working capital and general corporate purposes.
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Represented springbig, the largest loyalty and marketing automation platform to serve the cannabis Industry, in entering into a definitive agreement for a $500 million de-SPAC transaction resulting in springbig being listed on Nasdaq through a merger with Tuatara Capital Acquisition Corporation. The merger accelerated springbig’s visions to serve cannabis brands by consolidating a highly fragmented cannabis technology ecosystem across loyalty, data analytics, advertising, and other areas influencing consumer experience and marketing effectiveness.
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Represented California cannabis company The Parent Co. its acquisition of dispensary and delivery company Coastal Holding Company for stock consideration.
- Represented the buyer in its acquisition of a controlling interest in a manufacturer of dietary supplements.
- Represented the Seller in its stock sale of its broker-dealer and registered investment advisory business to a leading independent private financial services firm.
- Represented a Midwest regional vertically integrated cannabis operator in numerous acquisitions and joint ventures.
- Represented Panopta, a SaaS provider of network monitoring, in its sale to Fortinent (NASDAQ: FTNT).
- Represented a Missouri and California cannabis operator in a $25 million equity private placement.
