J. William Callison

Partner

WCallison@faegre.com
office:303-607-3770
Denver office
3200 Wells Fargo Center
1700 Lincoln Street
Denver, CO 80203-4532

Experience

Bill Callison has broad practice experience emphasizing corporate law, partnership and LLC law, tax law and affordable housing finance.

His corporate, partnership and LLC practice is diverse and includes forming and financing business entities, counseling clients on operational matters and preparing contracts and related documents, corporate and partnership mergers and acquisitions, and advising entities concerning dissolution and dissociation. Bill serves as an expert witness in numerous matters involving corporate, partnership, limited partnership and limited liability company disputes, and he is a commercial arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.

Bill's affordable housing practice is national in scope and encompasses low-income housing tax credit syndications and creative debt financing. He also has extensive experience implementing historic rehabilitation tax credits and New Markets Tax Credits.

Bill is a frequent lecturer and writer on business law topics, including partnership and LLC law, and he has served on the editorial board for Business Law Today, a publication of the American Bar Association Business Section. He has also served on numerous law school faculties. Most recently, he was the Feeney Professor of Business Law at the University of Ottawa School of Law, where he taught a course on U.S. business organization law.

Professional Recognition

  • The Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law, Non-Profit/Charities Law and Tax Law, 2008-2010
  • Burton Award for Legal Writing, 2008

Presentations

  • Creditors and Unincorporated Business Organizations
    Colorado Bar Association, Business Law Institute (2009)
  • Tax Aspects of Foreclosure
    14th Annual Conference, Real Estate Restructuring: New Strategies in this Unique Economy, Colorado Law Institute/CLE International (2009)

Publications

  • Limited Liability Companies: A State-by-State Guide to Law and Practice (annual supplementation)
    Thomson West (annual supplementation 1994-2007)
  • Partnership Law and Practice: General and Limited Partnerships
    Clark Boardman Callaghan (annual supplementation 1992-2007)
  • Why a Fiduciary Duty Shift to Creditors of Insolvent Business Entities is Incorrect as a Matter of Theory and Practice
    2 Md. J. Bus. & Tech. Law 431 (2007)
  • The Law Does Not Perfectly Comprehend: The Inadequacy of the Gross Negligence Duty of Care Standard in Unincorporated Business Organizations
    94 Ky. L. J. 451 (2006)
  • The Want of a Theory, Again
    37 Suffolk L. Rev. 719 (2004)
  • Changed Circumstances: Eliminating the Williamson Presumption that General Partnership Interests Are Not Securities
    58 Business Lawyer 1373 (2003)
  • Rationalizing Limited Liability and Veil Piercing
    58 Business Lawyer 1063 (2003)
  • Federalism and the Limited Liability Movement: The Coyote Howled and the Herd Stampeded
    27 J. Corp. L. 951 (2002)
  • They've Created a Lamb With Mandibles of Death: Secrecy, Disclosure and Fiduciary Duties in Limited Liability Firms
    76 Ind. L.J. 271 (2001)
  • Indeterminacy, Irony and Partnership Law
    2 Stanford Agora (2001)
  • Venture Capital and Corporate Governance: Evolving the Limited Liability Company to Finance the Entrepreneurial Business
    26 J. Corp. L. 98 (2000)
  • Blind Men and Elephants: Fiduciary Duties Under the Revised Uniform Partnership Act, the Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, and Beyond
    1 J. of Sm. And Emerg. Bus. Law 109 (1997)

Trade Organizations

  • American Bar Association Business Law Section
  • American Bar Association Affordable Housing and Community Development Committee
  • Colorado Bar Association
  • American Law Institute

Related Practices

Corporate Governance
Development, Acquisition and Sales
Housing and Community Development
Land Use and Zoning
New Energy
Public-Private Partnerships and Government Incentives
Real Estate Investment and Finance
Tax

Related Industries

Energy
New Energy, Clean Technology and Climate
Nonprofit Organizations

Education

Yale Law School
L.L.M. (2000)
University of Colorado Law School
J.D., Order of the Coif (1982)
Oberlin College
B.A. (1977)

News

03-February-2010 - Faegre & Benson to Receive Burton Decade Award for Achievements in Legal Writing
31-July-2009 - More Than 100 Faegre & Benson Lawyers Listed in The Best Lawyers in America
01-October-2008 - The Best Lawyers in America 2009 Includes 95 from Faegre & Benson
01-May-2008 - Callison Receives Burton Award for Legal Writing
31-March-2008 - The Best Lawyers in America 2008 Includes 81 from Faegre & Benson

Bar Admissions

Colorado
Texas

Court Admissions

U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Tax Court