Mr William Freeman > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Dallas, United States > Lawyer Profile
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices
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1445 ROSS AVENUE
SUITE 3700
DALLAS, TX 75202
TEXAS
United States
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Mr William Freeman
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Work Department
Business Tax
Position
Partner
Career
Will focuses his practice on federal income tax issues related to business transactions, with an emphasis on the energy sector and cross-border activity. He represents clients across a broad spectrum of domestic and international tax matters, advising on M&A deals, crafting corporate and partnership structures, negotiating agreements, and planning financial arrangements. Will also handles the tax aspects of public and private offerings of debt and equity securities.
Will was previously senior tax counsel for a major international energy company where his role included designing large-scale internal and external transactions involving US domestic and international tax provisions and counseling top-level management with respect to those transactions. He was also responsible for developing tax-efficient capital structures for foreign affiliates along with tax optimizing cross-border financing. His practice intersected with the tax rules in dozens of countries across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He has experience advocating for tax law changes at the federal level as well.
Memberships
Admitted to the Texas State Bar
Education
- JD, Harvard Law School, 2000
- BS, Accounting, University of Virginia, with distinction, 1995
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings