Will Stafford - Houston, Texas

About

Will Stafford is Of Counsel in Crain Caton’s Corporate, Business Transactions and Tax Group. With over a decade of criminal revel in, Will has developed a large company exercise, with an emphasis on securities offerings, commercial enterprise transactions, and trendy company governance. He has giant experience representing people, public and private businesses, monetary institutions and neighborhood governments in a wide variety of subjects including capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, early-degree and venture capital investments, technology transactions, business contracts, securities law and compliance, company structuring and formation, and standard corporate subjects.
Will has represented groups within the issuance of debt, equity and convertible securities (both public services and private placements), as well as the underwriters and clients in securities transactions. Both public and personal agencies have chosen Will to represent them inside the sale in their groups, and strategic and economic consumers have regarded to Will to help them beef up their enterprise portfolio. Will has helped to manual new agencies via their entity formations and early-degree investment transactions, together with angel rounds, and Series Seed, A, B, and so on. investments from undertaking capital companies. Most importantly, Will is a relied on commercial enterprise guide to his customers who regularly depend on as their out of doors standard counsel.
Prior to joining Crain Caton, Will served as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for a monetary offerings generation (FinTech) startup in Houston, Texas. Will held the Series 7, 24, 66 and 79 licenses (presently inactive) from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and acquired a Certificate in Business and Public Policy from the Wharton School on the University of Pennsylvania. › ›

Legal Issues

Business Law

Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes

Securities Law

Energy, Oil & Gas Law

Utilities

Estate Planning

Guardianship & Conservatorship, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills

Real Estate Law

Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law

Costs

Certificates

Languages

• English: Spoken, Written

Accepted Jurisdictions

Experience

• Of Counsel
  Crain, Caton & James PC
  2020
• General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer
  NextSeed
  2019
• Associate
  Schwartz, Page & Harding, LLP
  2012
• Associate
  Haynes and Boone, LLP
  2009

Educations

Video Call/Chat Support

• Zoom
• Microsoft Teams