William M. Klimon is Of Counsel in Caplin & Drysdale's Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Klimon joined the firm in 2001. He previously practiced in the corporate law departments of two other national law firms.
Mr. Klimon's clients include small, medium, and large companies, both for-profit and not-for-profit. His practice focuses on choice of business entities, corporate governance, and corporate structuring and restructuring. Additionally, he provides corporate law research, review, and support on tax transactions and litigation matters. He has experience in many forms of corporate transactional practice including debt, equity, and mezzanine financing; mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; secured lending, securitization, and franchising.
In 2000 for Lloyd's of London, he drafted the first multiple-transaction, mergers and acquisitions representations and warranties insurance policy ever written.
Mr. Klimon served in the U.S. Army from 1987 to 1990, during which time he was assigned to the U.S. Army Field Station in Berlin. He studied history at Cornell University from 1990 to 1992 and was on the staff of The Johns Hopkins University from 1992 to 1995.