William A Mason IV

Practice Areas

Business Formation and Representation

Business Succession Planning

Cannabis

Commercial Real Estate Financing

Emerging Technologies

Mergers and Acquisitions

Career

Chip Mason has been a partner in the Corporate Department of Gravel & Shea since 2006 and a managing partner since 2020. He joined the firm in 2003 after practicing at another prominent law firm in Burlington, Vermont, where he worked primarily on debt and equity financings.

At Gravel & Shea, Chip’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisition transactions and other investment activities, including representing private equity funds and companies in debt and equity financings. Chip also handles other corporate engagements, including structuring agreements among investors, structuring shareholder, partnership and LLC agreements among and on behalf of various investor groups and representing issuers and purchasers in the structuring, issuance and sale of securities.

Professional Memberships

Member, Chittenden County, Vermont, Maine and American Bar Associations

Councilor, City of Burlington (2012-2022)

Personal

Named Burlington Lawyer of the Year for Corporate Law in The Best Lawyers in America©, 2023 and 2016

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America© since 2013

Listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business since 2008

Listed in New England Super Lawyers

BV Distinguished rating in Martindale-Hubbell