pdf
Bill Squires is Chair of the Firm’s Land Use & Development Group and a partner in the Firm’s Real Estate and Environmental Groups. Bill focuses his practice on environmental, land use, and real estate matters. He counsels corporations, developers, manufacturers, private equity firms, lenders and individuals in litigation, transactional, and regulatory settings. Bill’s practice includes the acquisition and disposition of real property and operating businesses, the cleanup of contaminated properties, compliance, enforcement defense, permitting, zoning, wetlands matters, litigation, and environmental insurance. He represents clients in state and federal courts and regularly appears before regulatory agencies and municipal boards.
Bill represents clients in disputes under state and federal law involving releases of oil and hazardous materials (including releases of PFAS and other emerging contaminants) and works closely with environmental consultants, Massachusetts licensed site professionals, engineers, risk assessors, geologists and other experts in responding to such releases. He also represents buyers, sellers and lenders in the purchase, sale and financing of operating businesses, real property, and industrial facilities. He devotes a significant portion of his practice to negotiating and structuring business transactions, drafting contracts, and negotiating environmental insurance policies. He has led environmental due diligence efforts in many national and multinational mergers and acquisitions involving complex environmental liabilities as well as permitting, compliance, and hazardous waste site cleanup issues.
Bill is also an adjunct professor at Boston University School of Law where he teaches law students how to draft and interpret contracts.
Credentials
Work Experience
- Hinckley Allen
- Chair, Land Use & Development
- Partner (2016-Present)
- Boston University School of Law
- Adjunct Professor (2015-Present)
- Bingham McCutchen, LLP (Acquired by Morgan Lewis in November 2014)
- Counsel (2003-2016)
- Moehrke, Mackie, & Shea, PC
- Associate (1999-2003)
- ECS Claims Administrators
- Claims Counsel (1998-1999)
Honors & Awards
- Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing (2013)
- Super Lawyers, Massachusetts Rising Stars (2006-2007)
Professional Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- Boston Bar Association, Co-Chair of Hazardous and Solid Waste Committee (2010-2012)
- National Association for Industrial and Office Properties
- Practicing Law Institute
- Real Estate Finance Association
Bar Memberships
- Massachusetts, 1999
- New Jersey, 1998
- New York, 1999
- United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 1999
- Unites States District Court for the District of New Jersey, 1998
News & Insight
Environmental insurance: What to consider before you invest in a property
May 25, 2018New England Real Estate Journal (NEREJ) published this article originally created for a Hinckley Allen Retail Real Estate Newsletter in March 2018.Before investing in commercial real estate, parties should be aware of potential environmental liabilities a…
Environmental Insurance: What to Consider Before you Invest in a Property
March 1, 2018Before investing in commercial real estate, parties should be aware of potential environmental liabilities and should carefully consider options for minimizing their exposure to such liabilities. One approach for minimizing environmental liability exposu…
Hinckley Allen Welcomes William J. Squires, III as Partner to the Real Estate Practice
February 24, 2016Prominent local attorney, William J. Squires, III has joined Hinckley Allen’s Boston office as a partner in the Real Estate practice group. Bill joins the firm from Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius, LLP.“We are very excited to have Bill join our firm. Bill…
Events
Environmental Risks in Commercial Real Estate Development
June 5, 2019William J. Squires will discuss how developers, owners, investors, and brokers can optimize their commercial real estate redevelopment projects by using legal approaches to managing environmental risks in order to yield the best deals. This breakfast semin…
Identifying and Managing Environmental Risks in Commercial Transactions
February 9, 2017Hinckley Allen Partner William J. Squires, III will be speaking in the Strafford live webinar "Identifying and Managing Environmental Risks in Commercial Transactions." Almost all corporate and commercial transactions involve environmental compliance consi…