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