Schaefer, Dennis L.

Mr. William Sawyer is counsel in the Commercial Litigation Department. He has decades of experience counseling private and public business entities on diverse issues related to structure, capital formation, financing, management, governance, taxation, dispute avoidance and resolution and performance.  He specializes in common sense, cost-effective solutions to thorny business problems. 

Mr. Sawyer has assisted in the creation of a number of successful business ventures, in technical and other fields, and assisted in their growth, including the raising and documentation of financing, and  their ultimate public offering.  He has also played an important role in a number of successful efforts to return troubled corporations to profitable status and the merger and acquisitions of others.  He has also actively engaged in the creation and management of business entities in Mexico.

Mr. Sawyer has served on the Boards of, and held offices in, numerous for-profit and charitable entities and organizations.  He has served on the Board of Selectmen of his resident community and is a Life Member of the Massachusetts Selectmen’s Association.  He has also served as Chairman of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council of Greater Boston, President of the Massachusetts Association of Regional Planning Agencies and on the Board of the National Association of Regional Planning Agencies.  He received the Regional Leadership Award of the Regional Planning Councils and Commissions of New England.

Mr. Sawyer obtained his JD from Harvard Law School and his AB, cum laude, from Harvard College. He is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and before the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the U.S. Court of Military Appeals. He is a member of the New England Republican Council, the Massachusetts Selectmen’s Association and the United State Supreme Court Association.