Walter Maas III

Practice Areas

Business & Finance

Corporate Governance

Directors' & Officers' Liability

Executive Compensation

Mergers & Acquisitions

Career

Walter M. Maas III is head of the Business & Finance Department. His principal areas of practice are corporate law and finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and the formation and capitalization of venture capital, buy out, real estate and other investment funds.

Walt is active in the American, Washington State, Wisconsin State, and King County Bar Associations and was a long standing member of the Board of Editors for the Attorney/CPA Tax Clinic. He has been recognized by a multitude of organizations. Best Lawyers named him the “Lawyer of the Year” for Business Organizations in the Seattle Area for 2016, in addition to naming him a “Best Lawyer in America” on multiple occasions. He has also been named a “Super Lawyer” by Super Lawyers and Seattle Met, one of Seattle’s best lawyers by Seattle Magazine, one of Washington State’s best lawyers by Washington CEO magazine and was designated as a Top Lawyer in Puget Sound by Seattle Business Monthly.

He has been an adjunct professor at the University of Washington School of Law Graduate Tax Program and a senior adjunct professor at Golden Gate University’s Graduate School of Taxation. He frequently lectures on aspects of structuring and financing technology ventures and other business enterprises, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate and individual tax planning. He has written numerous papers and co-authored various publications, including “Washington Partnership Law and Practice Handbook” and “Buying and Selling the Closely Held Business in Washington”.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association

Washington State Bar Association: Corporations, Business, Banking, and Taxation Sections

King County Bar Association

Wisconsin State Bar Association

Association for Corporate Growth

Aerospace Futures Alliance, Board Member

Seattle Rotary

Attorney/CPA Tax Clinic, Former Board of Editors

Publications

Co-author, “Washington Partnership Law Deskbook”

Co-author, “Buying and Selling the Closely Held Business in Washington”

Education