Bill Gotlieb is a shareholder in the Corporate and Business practice group and has significant experience representing a variety of clients in a broad range of legal and business matters.

Bill’s practice and advice includes:

• Choice of entity formation, reorganization, and liquidation and dissolution
• General governance
• Business planning, succession and disputes
• Counseling on day-to-day legal and business matters as a de facto general counsel or otherwise
• Discussing, negotiating, documenting and advising with respect to all kinds of contractual arrangements
• Merger and acquisition transactions, joint ventures, and other business combinations and reorganizations
• Discussing, negotiating, documenting and advising with respect to other common and unique transactional matters

Bill appreciates his relationships with clients and the opportunity to provide legal, business and practical advice and creative alternatives to achieving desired outcomes. He has an AV® peer rating (highest level of professional excellence) from Martindale-Hubbell. In addition to being an attorney, Bill is a certified public accountant.

Professional and Civic Activities

• Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Minnesota State Bar Association
• Member, Hennepin County Bar Association
• Board of Directors and Former Chair, Administrative Affairs Committee, Sholom Community Alliance
• Former Board of Directors and Chair, Safeguarding Our Community Committee, Jewish Community Relations Council, Minnesota and the Dakotas
• Former Board of Directors and Member, Grant Committee, Ronald McDonald House Children’s Charities of the Upper Midwest
   

Education

• J.D., cum laude, University of Minnesota Law School, 1988
• B.A., with honors, Business, University of Minnesota, 1984

Admissions

• State of Minnesota, 1988