Stainton, William M. - Macfarlane Ferguson & McMullen

Education

Commissioner, Federal Judicial Nominating Commission
– State of Florida, 2005-2009
Florida Bar’s Standing Committee on Judicial Administration and Evaluation 2010-2013
St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation, Officer and Board Member
Association for Corporate Growth, Member
Statewide Finance Committee, Ashley Moody for Florida Attorney General, 2018
Tampa Bay Field Representative, Mel Martinez for U.S. Senate 2004
Intern for U.S. Senator Connie Mack, Washington, D.C., Summer 1998
Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Member

Mr. Stainton advises clients in a broad range of corporate, business, and transactional matters, including mergers, sales and acquisitions, securities offerings, partnership and stockholder agreements, corporate governance, business planning, and a variety of strategic and joint venture arrangements. He counsels clients in connection with venture capital and private equity transactions, recapitalizations, reorganizations, divestitures, corporate finance, credit facilities, and related tax matters. Mr. Stainton has significant experience in mergers and acquisitions and securities offerings in the private capital markets, and the legal and business issues inherent in such transactions. He regularly advises companies, management teams and private equity funds in connection with investments and sales transactions. In addition, he has experience handling shareholder and management disputes, preparing and issuing legal opinions, and advising clients on crisis management. Mr. Stainton serves as outside general counsel to a number of Florida based companies, partnerships and investment firms. Representative industries include private equity and family office investment, banking and finance, insurance services, manufacturing, value-added distribution, hospitality, healthcare and healthcare services, logistics, telecommunications, information technology, and software as a service.