Areas of Practice
William R. Moorman, Jr. is a shareholder and director of Craig and Macauley Professional Corporation, where he concentrates in general business law, corporate transactions, commercial litigation and insolvency matters, including bankruptcy and business reorganizations. Mr. Moorman also represents lenders and borrowers in the negotiation and documentation of commercial finance transactions, loan workouts and restructurings. He also represents corporate directors and officers in class action litigation, employment, severance and other related matters. He has a diverse practice that includes representation of individual and business clients of all sizes in corporate and transactional matters, litigation and insolvency.
Representative Matters and Work for Clients
Mr. Moorman has extensive experience representing clients in complex mergers and acquisitions, chapter 11 reorganizations, chapter 7 liquidations, and related bankruptcy acquisitions, litigation and transactions. He has represented corporate and individual debtors, creditors' committees, secured and unsecured creditors, investors, asset purchasers and trustees. Mr. Moorman has also counseled lenders and borrowers in numerous out of court workouts. In addition, Mr. Moorman has represented clients in complex negotiations, transactions and litigation involving sales of businesses, contract disputes, employment issues, directors’ and officers’ litigation and other complex matters. His local and national business clients have included financial institutions, venture capitalists, real estate developers, internet related businesses, software developers, information technology companies, retailers, manufacturers, landlords, restaurants, health care businesses, senior executives of public companies, doctors and attorneys.
Awards and Professional Activities
Mr. Moorman is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® in the specialty of Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law. He has also been named annually as a Massachusetts “SuperLawyer” by the publishers of Law & Politics and Boston Magazine. He has also published articles and has lectured at seminars on bankruptcy and other commercial law topics. Mr. Moorman has also spoken at the Annual Bench Meets Bar program sponsored by the Boston Bar Association Bankruptcy Law Section.
He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Bankruptcy Section of the Boston Bar Association. He is also a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Turnaround Management Association.
Bar and Court Admissions
- Massachusetts
- United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- Pro hac vice admissions in various federal and bankruptcy courts, including Delaware, New York, New Hampshire and New Jersey
Education
Mr. Moorman received his B.A. from Colby College and his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Boston University School of Law. Mr. Moorman was a member and editor of the Boston University Law Review.