Profile

For more than 30 years Bill Pappas has provided general counsel and corporate and governance counsel to national and international clients in the biotechnology, life sciences, nonprofit, health care, manufacturing and pharmaceutical-related industries. He represents clients in various business law and transactional issues including mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, divestitures, expansions and stock and asset purchases.

Mr. Pappas also has significant experience representing domestic and foreign business entities in private investments in the United States and abroad.
 
Additionally, Mr. Pappas serves as general counsel to the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, the leading catalyst for North Carolina’s life science industry.

Representative Matters

• Represented a major nonprofit life science research entity in reorganizing its operations and in a sale-leaseback of its real estate holdings
• Represented a Canadian company in acquiring a building products manufacturing company and implementing a $175M expansion of its operating facilities
• Represented a major primary care medical practice in expanding its operations through a merger
• Provided corporate governance counseling to a foundation that supports a major health care system
• Represented a multi-office medical specialist practice in evaluating the reorganization of its practice and health care system affiliation options
• Counseled a major Chinese company on the legal and operational issues involved in organizing a U.S. operating subsidiary

Experience Highlights

• Corporate and Governance Counsel to for-profit and nonprofit business entities
• Advises boards of directors, board committees and management on corporate governance and related issues
• Transactions and restructurings involving nonprofit business entities
• Transactions involving biotechnology, bioprocessing and other technology-based business entities
• Transactions involving the health care industry including general business and contracting matters for medical practices
• Corporate finance and lending transactions
• Corporate relocations, expansions and Greenfield projects

News

• Forty-Four Parker Poe Attorneys Named 2013 NC Super Lawyers
  January 18, 2013
• Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized Among 2013 Legal Elite
  January 15, 2013
• 74 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2013
  August 23, 2012
• Forty-Two Parker Poe Attorneys Named as 2012 NC Super Lawyers
  January 20, 2012
• Business North Carolina Names 16 Attorneys to 2012 Legal Elite
  January 9, 2012
• 69 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2012
  September 6, 2011
• Thirty-Seven Parker Poe Attorneys Named NC Super Lawyers for 2011
  January 25, 2011
• Business North Carolina Names 13 Attorneys to 2011 Legal Elite
  Firm Partner Catharine Biggs Arrowood “Top Vote-Getter” for Antitrust
  January 21, 2011
• 61 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers® for 2011
  August 18, 2010
• Lawyers Mutual Names Partner Bill Pappas to Board of Directors
  May 7, 2010
• Law & Politics Names 36 Parker Poe Attorneys as Super Lawyers
  January 28, 2010
• Shareholder Bill of Rights Act of 2009
  Business Law Alert
  November 2, 2009
• 55 Parker Poe Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers®
  July 30, 2009
• Forty-Six Attorneys Named Super Lawyers
  January 26, 2009
• Twenty-One Parker Poe Attorneys Among "Legal Elite" for 2009
  January 1, 2009
• Parker Poe Increases Number of Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers in America
  October 1, 2008
• Q&A with William G. Pappas
  Triangle Business Journal
  May 5, 2008
• Twenty-One Parker Poe Attorneys Named Super Lawyers
  January 28, 2008
• Twenty-One Parker Poe Attorneys Among "Legal Elite" for 2008
  January 14, 2008
• 40 Parker Poe Attorneys Named Among 2008 Best Lawyers in America
  September 14, 2007
• Nineteen Parker Poe Attorneys Named North Carolina Super Lawyers 2007
  January 26, 2007
• Fifteen Parker Poe Attorneys Among "Legal Elite"
  January 8, 2007
• Parker Poe Attorneys Named to Best Lawyers in America
  September 12, 2006
• Seventeen Parker Poe Attorneys Among "Legal Elite"
  January 20, 2006
• Reaching Out for International Investment
  Research Triangle Regional Partnership
  January 19, 2006
• Parker Poe Attorneys Among The Best Lawyers in America
  September 13, 2005
• Parker Poe Attorneys Honored as The Best Lawyers in America and the "Legal Elite" in North Carolina
  February 28, 2005
• Electronic Signature Legislation Becomes Effective October 1
  April 11, 2001

Events & Speaking Engagements

• Real Life Issues in Director Liability, Presenter, Directors’ College
  October 2012
  National Association of Corporate Directors – Research Triangle Chapter
• China: How To Do Business in North Carolina and Who Can Help, Presenter, Trade Investment Seminar
  January 2011
  Hosted by the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China and the State of North Carolina
• Surviving The Economic Crisis: Credit and Operating Finance Issues and Solutions, Presenter
  2008
  American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• The Global Economic Crisis & What It Means To Your Business, Executive Forum Presenter
  2008
  UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
• The Duties and Liabilities of Directors in an Era of Change, Faculty Member and Presenter, Directors' College, Research Triangle Chapter – National Association of Corporate Directors College, 2000-2011
  
• In Pursuit of Growth: Focusing on Controls, Transparency, and Financial Communications, Presenter
  KPMG, 2010 Roundtable Series
• Changes and Challenges Driving the Audit Committee Agenda, Presenter, KPMG, 2011 Roundtable Series
  

Memberships

• Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company
  Board of Directors (Claims and Finance Committees), 2010-present
• UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
  Board of Visitors, 2006-present
• National Association of Corporate Directors (Research Triangle Chapter)
  Director & Secretary, 2009-present; General Counsel, 2002-2008
• Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
  Edge 4, Advance Division Co-Chair, 2009-present; Board of Advisors, 1999-present; Economic Development Board, 2000-present
• National Association of Corporate Directors
  Institute Certificate Holder, 2007-present
• Marbles Kids Museum
  Board of Directors, 2002-2010
• North Carolina Bar Association
  Chair, Business Law Section, 1997-1999

Cases

• Emergence of a Leading Research Institute