William (“Bill”) Sopp concentrates his practice on corporate transactions, commercial finance, business workouts and reorganization, and bank loan enforcement matters. He has developed an industry focus in consumer products, particularly in the food and beverage and fashion markets. Bill typically represents privately-owned companies, C-level executives, and investors in these areas. He is often enlisted in complex transactions, such as strategic acquisitions and joint ventures, and strives to recognize transformative opportunities for his clients.
In representing middle-market companies, their owners, and management teams, Bill delivers a strategic approach based upon three decades of legal and financial experience to assist his clients in achieving their business objectives. His focus on the middle-market emphasizes a sensitivity to the goals and dynamics of the ownership group, and the interplay between their personal goals and their business and financial strategies.
In serving as outside general counsel to technology, manufacturing, transportation, and media companies, Bill supports company leadership in preparing and implementing business plans for revenue and operational growth, enhanced profitability, capital sourcing and, ultimately, a successful exit. On the investment and institutional side, he advises numerous debt and equity funding sources in assessing and implementing transactions to fund market opportunities, as well as transforming distressed ventures.
Prior to entering the practice of law, Bill was a commercial loan officer with State Street Bank and Trust Company in Boston.