William “Bill” Parish, Jr. counsels clients on complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, partnerships and joint ventures, energy transactions and projects, real estate and general corporate matters. Bill serves a range of clients from family-owned businesses to exchange-listed companies and multinational corporations, as well as private equity and venture capital firms, family offices and high net-worth individuals, and institutional investors.

Bill has extensive experience in energy transactions and cross-border transactions across Latin America. He has served as lead lawyer in buying and selling oil and gas properties, pipelines, terminals, processing plants, storage facilities, and oilfield service companies. Fluent in Spanish, Bill regularly counsels U.S. and Latin American clients in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and commercial matters involving businesses, operations and assets in Latin America.

Bill also counsels private equity funds and their portfolio companies with respect to investments ranging from portfolio company transactions, equity line investments and minority investments, as well as management compensation packages, corporate governance matters, add-on acquisitions, equity and debt financings, and dispositions. Additionally, he works with landlords and tenants in commercial leasing transactions and counsels borrowers in real estate and commercial financing transactions, including general corporate revolving and term loan facilities, acquisition finance, mezzanine facilities and asset-based loans.

Bill is a fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, a group to which fewer than one-third of 1% of the members of the Texas Bar are granted admission.