Mr. Lee focuses his practice on corporation, business and tax law matters. Mr. Lee’s corporate and business law practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions; private equity and venture capital investments and fund formation; recapitalizations; private security offerings; partnerships, limited liability companies, and other joint venture arrangements; and general company counseling and contract work, including entity formation, buy-sell agreements, equity compensation plans, and employment agreements. Mr. Lee has represented companies as well as investors and executives in a wide variety of industries, including technology (software, hardware, and services), medical device, health care, oil and gas, real estate and retail.
Mr. Lee’s tax practice focuses on federal income tax structuring and planning for a wide variety of domestic and international transactions. Mr. Lee has substantial experience in the taxation of corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, corporate reorganizations, real estate, and equity compensation.
Mr. Campbell focuses his practice on general corporate, real estate and oil & gas law matters, providing legal advice to both individual and corporate clients. His corporate and business law practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, private equity and venture capital investments and fund formation, recapitalizations, private security offerings, partnerships, limited liability companies and other joint venture arrangements. He also provides general company counseling and performs general contract work, including entity formation, buy-sell agreements, equity compensation plans, employment agreements, real estate lease transactions, distributor and dealer arrangements, dispute resolution, employment and other corporate-related matters. Mr. Campbell has represented companies as well as investors and executives in a wide variety of industries including oil and gas, waste services, construction, marine services, retail, analytical instrumentation, healthcare and real estate.
Mr. Campbell’s oil & gas practice focuses on representing upstream independent energy companies, oil field service companies and private equity funds in connection with a wide variety of corporate transactions, including oil, gas and mineral leases, joint operating agreements, purchase and sale agreements, financing agreements and other energy related documents. He also regularly represents land and mineral owners with respect to leasing of mineral interests, family interests management and estate planning related to mineral ownership.
Bill’s practice focuses on intellectual property-based transactions. He has extensive experience negotiating software licenses, patent licenses, technology development agreements, joint development agreements, Internet and content agreements, technology acquisition agreements, strategic alliances and distribution agreements particularly within the context of the Internet, high-tech transactions and e-commerce. He also works on the intellectual property aspects of significant corporate transactions such as mergers, acquisitions strategic alliances, and technology transfers. In addition to traditional intellectual property counseling, he has extensive expertise in the evolving fields of privacy and Internet law, including counseling clients on all aspects of handling personal information, electronic commerce and content development.
As a licensed patent attorney, Bill’s practice also includes the preparation and prosecution of U.S. and foreign patent applications and the counseling clients on patent-related issues and strategies. He routinely prosecutes patents related to software applications, wireless applications, wireless content development systems, content searching algorithms and systems, compression-decompression algorithms and applications and web based business systems. He is involved in all aspects of domestic and foreign trademark prosecution and enforcement. His practice includes matters involving infringing domain names, meta-tags and spam, as well as world-wide prosecution of Web-based trademarks. His experience includes the preparation of trademark clearance opinions, handling numerous domain name disputes under the UDRP and arguing a variety of proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.
While in law school, Bill was the Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal. He interned at the Texas Supreme Court in the chambers of the Honorable Justice Priscilla Owen and at the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the chambers of the Honorable Justice Emilio Garza. He is a Registered Patent Attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and has served as an assistant professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He is a member of the Austin Intellectual Property Inn of Court and a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation.
Bill’s experience has included the areas of real estate, finance, corporate, commercial transactions, construction, and litigation. He has represented buyers and sellers in commercial real estate transactions, including contract negotiations and closings and title and due diligence review; landlords and tenants in commercial leasing matters, including negotiation and litigation; buyers and sellers in business and stock sales; developers in land acquisition, financing, development, entitlement and municipal law issues; borrowers and lenders in real estate and other asset based financings; business owners in business planning and entity formation and dissolution, including partnership and shareholder agreements; borrowers and lenders in debt restructures and workouts, foreclosures and related litigation; builders and homeowners in residential contracts and disputes; and owners and contractors in construction contracts and disputes. Bill also has experience with general business and contract matters, as well as commercial litigation experience in multiple real estate and business areas.
Throughout his career, Bill has focused his practice on civil litigation resulting in extensive trial and courtroom experience gained in over twenty years of civil trial work. At this time, Bill’s practice emphasis is commercial litigation including business-to-business disputes, insurance litigation, contract litigation, fiduciary duty litigation, employment litigation and health care litigation. Bill has been involved with over 100 jury trials during the course of his career.
Bill’s trial experience includes handling litigation matters in the following areas:
- Business Disputes
- Breach of Contract
- Legal Malpractice
- Insurance Bad Faith
- Personal Injury/ Insurance Defense
- Jones Act
- Medical Malpractice
