Attorney Profile
Bill Carlson, President of the Firm and Chair of the Firm’s Corporate & Securities Law group, advises private and public companies, governments and quasi-governmental entities, nonprofits, and individuals in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, securities law compliance, and general business, as well as general corporate planning. He acts as outside general counsel for several companies.
Bill has served as independent counsel to Special Committees, Boards of Directors, and individual directors of publicly held real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other public corporations, advising on corporate governance, conflicts of interest, business combinations, and other matters.
Nationally recognized by Chambers USA as a leading lawyer in REITs: Maryland Counsel and in Maryland for Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions, he is a past chair of the Section Council of the Maryland State Bar Association’s Section on Business Law.
Since 2015, Bill has chaired the MSBA Section on Business Law’s Committee on Corporation Law, which monitors national trends and judicial decisions and proposes amendments to the Maryland General Corporation Law for consideration by the General Assembly (and has testified before Senate and House of Delegates committees over thirty times). He has authored articles regarding Maryland statutory standard of conduct for directors of Maryland corporations and has served as an expert witness in this area of law.
Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- Maryland State Bar Association and its Section of Business Law, serving as the chair of its Section Council, 2012-2013
- Chair of MSBA Section of Business Law's Committee on Corporation Law, 2015 - Present
- Member, Maryland State Bar Association's Board of Governors, 2017 – 2018 and 2024-2025 and former Chair of the MSBA Budget & Finance Committee
News & Publications
An article in the Maryland Bar Journal proposing proper application of Section 2-405.1 to a case on appeal.
Firm president Bill Carlson's article in the Maryland Bar Journal answers several inquiries on the prospective application of the amendments to Section 2-405.1 of the Maryland General Corporation Law.