Nyquist, Dana K.

Bill is a partner at Langdale Vallotton, LLP whose legal practice focuses on commercial and residential real estate, zoning and land use planning, secured lending, business and corporate law, and estate planning and probate. Bill has significant experience handling the acquisition, financing and development of commercial real estate throughout Georgia. He also routinely represents lending institutions in connection with secured lending and property foreclosures.

In addition to his transactional practice, Bill also regularly advises clients on employment matters, including the drafting and enforceability of employment contracts and restrictive covenants under Georgia law. In 2011, and again in 2012, Bill lectured on the enforceability of employee non-compete provisions under Georgia law at the State Bar of Georgia's annual General Practice and Trial Section Continuing Legal Education Seminar.

Bill received his bachelor’s degree in 1998 from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his Juris Doctor, with honors, from the University of Florida’s College of Law. He was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in 2002. Bill joined Langdale Vallotton in 2006 after practicing for over four years at the Atlanta-based law firm of Troutman Sanders, LLP. He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Real Property Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia, and the Bank Counsel Section of the Georgia Bankers Association.

In 2009, Atlanta Magazine and Law and Politics named Bill as one of “Georgia's Rising Stars” in the legal profession, an honor achieved by less than three percent of Georgia attorneys under the age of forty. In 2012, Bill's legal peers selected him for inclusion in Georgia Trend Magazine's 2012 Legal Elite as one of Georgia's top-rated attorneys in the practice of Real Estate. Bill is also recognized by his legal peers as an AV® Preeminent™ attorney in Martindale-Hubbell.

In the community, Bill currently serves as the 2013 Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Greater Valdosta-Lowndes County United Way and on the Board of Trustees for Leadership Lowndes, Inc.