Contact Information

william.callison@FaegreBD.com3200 Wells Fargo Center
1700 Lincoln Street
Denver, Colorado 80203-4532
T: +1 303 607 3770
F: +1 303 607 3600

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)

Bar Admissions

Colorado Texas (inactive)

Court Admissions

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

J. William Callison

Partner

Bill Callison has broad practice experience emphasizing corporate law, partnership and LLC law, tax law and affordable housing and community development 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. He has also served on numerous law school faculties. Most recently, he was the Thompson Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Colorado School of Law, where he taught income taxation and partnership taxation.  Previously, he served as Feeney Professor of Business Law at the University of Ottawa School of Law, where he taught U.S. business organization law, and as Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he taught tax subjects.

Honors

  • Super Lawyers — Business/Corporate , 2013
  • The Best Lawyers in America — Corporate Law, Non-Profit/Charities Law and Tax Law, 2006-13
  • Burton Award for Legal Writing — 2008, 2011

Professional Associations

  • Commercial Arbitration Panel of the American Arbitration Association
  • American Bar Association Business Law Section
  • American Bar Association Affordable Housing and Community Development Forum —Governing Committee
  • Colorado Bar Association
  • American Law Institute

Published Articles

  • Limited Liability Companies: A State-by-State Guide to Law and Practice (annual supplementation)
    Thomson West, annual supplementation, 1994-present
  • Partnership Law and Practice: General and Limited Partnerships
    Clark Boardman Callaghan, annual supplementation, 1992-present
  • Nine Bean-Rows LLC:  Using the Limited Liability Company to Hold Vacation Homes and Other Personal Use Property
    38 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 592, 2012
  • The L3C Illusion:  Why Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies Will Not Stimulate Socially Optimal Private Foundation Investment in Entrepreneurial Companies
    35 Vt. L. Rev. 273, 2010
  • Charging Order Exclusivity: A Pragmatic Approach to Olmstead v. FTC
    66 Bus. Law. 339, 2011
  • The L3C Illusion: Why Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies Will Not Stimulate Socially Optimal Private Foundation Investment in Entrepreneurial Ventures
    35 Vt. L. Rev. 273, 2010
  • Achieving Our Country: Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and Geographic
    Desegregation 19 S. Cal. J. Law & social Justice 213, 2010
  • To Tame the Mandibles of Death: Secrecy, Disclosure and Fiduciary Duties in the Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act
    59 Cath. U.L. Rev. 183, 2010
  • Contractarianism and Its Discontents: Reflections on Unincorporated Business Organization Law
    42 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 493, 2009
  • 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

Related Practices

Corporate
Corporate Governance
Development, Acquisition & Sales
Government
Housing & Community Development
Land Use, Planning & Zoning
Public-Private Partnerships & Government Incentives
Real Estate & Construction
Real Estate Investment & Finance
Tax

Related Industries

Carbon Markets
Energy, Resources & Clean Technology
Exempt Organizations

Media Mentions

14-October-2011 - Callison Comments on Low Profit LLCs in New York Times
13-September-2011 - Callison Blogs for The Conglomerate
23-November-2010 - Denver Business Journal Reports Callison Tapped For Law Dean Search Committee

News

15-March-2013 - Faegre Baker Daniels Lawyers Named to Colorado Super Lawyers
27-August-2012 - The Best Lawyers in America Recognizes 187 Faegre Baker Daniels Attorneys
09-March-2012 - Faegre Baker Daniels Attorneys Named to Super Lawyers in Colorado
06-September-2011 - Ninety Faegre & Benson Lawyers Listed in The Best Lawyers in America
19-May-2011 - William Callison Receives Burton Award for Legal Writing
09-August-2010 - Ninety-Three Faegre & Benson Lawyers Listed in The Best Lawyers in America
03-February-2010 - Faegre & Benson to Receive Burton Decade Award for Achievements in Legal Writing
31-July-2009 - 96 Faegre & Benson Lawyers Listed in The Best Lawyers in America
01-October-2008 - The Best Lawyers in America 2009 Includes 90 from Faegre & Benson
01-May-2008 - Callison Receives Burton Award for Legal Writing
31-March-2008 - The Best Lawyers in America 2008 Includes 79 from Faegre & Benson

Court Admissions

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