Grossman, Debra

Bill Griffin practices in the Business Law and Real Estate and Environmental areas. He primarily represents privately owned and publicly held businesses in a variety of business and real estate transactions. He has also acted as bond counsel in many tax-exempt bond financings.

Versatility has been the watchword of Bill's professional career. He has extensive experience with sophisticated business and financial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions; public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities; venture capital financing; tax-exempt bonds; tax shelter syndications; equipment lease transactions; state and municipal finance; foreign investment in U.S. real estate; and bank and utility regulation. He also has extensive experience in real estate transactions, including condominiums, subdivisions, mortgages and mortgage foreclosures, commercial leasing, construction, and permanent financing, as well as zoning practice, litigation, work-outs, and asset recoveries.

Although primarily a business and real estate lawyer, Bill has briefed and argued numerous appellate cases in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the Massachusetts Appeals Court and the Maine Supreme Court. He is the author of numerous articles on bank holding companies, commodity pools, government-assisted financing and tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Bill has also conducted or been a panelist at continuing legal education seminars on corporate practice, mergers and acquisitions, fiduciary duties of officers, directors and business owners and the new Massachusetts Business Corporation Act.