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Practice Expertise
- Business Law
- Privately Held Businesses
- Mergers & Acquisitions
Areas of Practice
- Business Law
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Privately Held Businesses
- General Corporate and Outside General ...
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Profile
Focused, business-aware deal lawyer and outside GC for privately held companies
Will Schultz is an experienced corporate lawyer who represents privately held businesses and their owners. As outside general counsel and a trusted advisor for his clients, including family-owned businesses and private equity funds and their portfolio companies, Will provides counsel on:
- Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
- Succession planning
- General business and corporate matters
Having served for over eight years as the general counsel of a parent company to a global family of manufacturing businesses prior to joining Quarles, Will brings broad business experience to the advice he provides to clients. Known for his collaborative, results-oriented style, Will approaches his work from the premise that listening to and understanding what is important to a client (as well as to the other party to a transaction) is key to resolving differences and getting deals — and business in general — done.
Will is national chair of the firm’s Business Law Group, co-chair of the firm’s Privately Held Businesses team, section chair of the firm’s transactional practice groups and a member of the firm's Executive Committee.
Bar Admissions
- Wisconsin
Education
- Harvard Law School Executive Education (2022)
- Leadership in Law Firms Program
- University of Wisconsin - Madison (B.A., 1997)
- University of Wisconsin Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2000)
- Wisconsin Law Review, note and comment editor
Areas of Practice
- Business Law
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Privately Held Businesses
- General Corporate and Outside General Counsel Services
- Mergers and Acquisitions
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