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Resumé
William F. Ziprick, Esq.

Education

University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA

Juris Doctorate, 1980, Order of the Coif

Pacific Union College – Angwin, CA

B.S., 1977, Magna Cum Laude

Major: Business Administration (Accounting Emphasis)

Select Honors

  • "A.V. Preeminent" Rating (the highest Rating) from Martindale-Hubbell (the leading information services company for the legal profession)
  • 2023 California Association of Business Brokers ("CABB") Affiliate of the Year
  • Highest Rating of "10" from AVVO.com, a leading attorney directory

UCLA - Law School

  • Order of the Coif – UCLA Chapter (Top 10% of Graduating Law Class)
  • American Jurisprudence Award: Remedies (Top of Class)
  • American Jurisprudence Award: Civil Procedure
  • American Jurisprudence Award: Labor Law

Pacific Union College

  • Magna Cum Laude – Pacific Union College (3.9 GPA)
  • Wall Street Journal Award: Outstanding Senior Business Major: 1977

Experience

Areas of William F. Ziprick's ("WFZ") experience over the past decades in the legal field include negotiating, structuring, and preparing documentation for numerous multi-million dollar transactions (with several in excess of $100 million), as well as many smaller transactions, including:

  • Strategic affiliations, acquisitions, and sales, including extensive due diligence
  • Real estate acquisitions and leases
  • Sophisticated equipment purchase contracts
  • Complex contract negotiations and preparation
  • Numerous financing transactions, collectively in the tens of millions of dollars

WFZ's experience also includes serving as a Co-Owner, General Counsel, and Chief Financial Officer for a successful West Coast real estate development/senior housing company and numerous affiliates, where his responsibilities included:

  • Overseeing and directing the overall financial plans, operating and capital budgets, and all legal issues for the company and affiliates
  • Managing relationships with numerous lending institutions (including HUD & national and regional lending institutions), which included construction and permanent financing of over $70 million in aggregate
  • Successfully negotiating and closing the sale of 12 senior living facilities along the West Coast, which involved simultaneously obtaining the required approvals from numerous lenders and state regulatory agencies
  • Overseeing the planning, development, and construction process, from conceptual idea to completion, for an approximate 150,000-square-foot senior housing campus in Southern California

For many years, WFZ also served as the primary corporate General Counsel for a major university healthcare system (with numerous hospitals, clinics, real estate holdings, and affiliated non-profit and for-profit entities). In this role, WFZ's duties included:

  • Advising on all corporate, contract, and business matters
  • Leading the negotiations, due diligence, and closing of various acquisitions and transactions
  • Making numerous presentations and advising the Board of Directors and Officers for all the various entities comprising the healthcare system

Licenses/Professional Affiliations

  • California law license since 1980
  • California Lawyer's Association
  • United States District Courts (Including all 3 California Districts)
  • United States Tax Court
  • Texas law license since 2024

Association Board of Directors/Committee Service

  • CABB Board of Directors (2021-2022)
  • CABB Instructor (2021 - 2024) – "Legal Aspects of Business Brokerage"
  • California Society of Healthcare Attorneys
    - Former Member of the Board of Directors; Chair of the Publications Committee
  • California Assisted Living Association
    - Former Member of the Board of Directors; Treasurer; Chair of the Finance Committee

Editorial/Publications

  • Co-Guest Columnist for USA Today's article, "We're Helping Other Infants Live"
  • Co-author of "Better Understanding Legal Compliance Issues" - Chapter 2 of CABB's 250 course - "Legal Aspects of Business Sales in California"
  • Former Co-Author: Quarterly "Topical Reports" summarizing new relevant case law for the California Health Law News (California Society of Healthcare Attorneys)
  • Edited various articles for California Health Law News

Seminar Presentations

  • Mediator/Participant: "Ask The Attorneys" Legal Panel Discussion (2019-2023) CABB Annual Conferences

  • Instructor: "CABB 250 Course: Legal Aspects of Business Sales in California" (2021-2024)

  • Presenter: "Exploring Legal Hotspots in Asset Purchase Sales" (2020) CABB Statewide Webinar

  • Mastermind Session Facilitator: "Ask the Attorney the Questions You Were Afraid to Ask" (2018) CABB Annual Conference

  • Mastermind Session Co-Facilitator: "Dealing with Difficult Landlords and Leases" (2018) CABB Annual Conference

  • Presenter: "What You Don't Know Can Hurt - Digging Deeper into the CABB Asset Purchase Agreement" (2019) CABB Orange County Chapter Meeting

    Presenter: "Ask The Attorneys" Seminar at the California Assisted Living Association Semi-Annual Spring and Fall Conferences for several years

  • Participant in a panel discussion entitled "Reassessing Integrated Delivery System for the New Millennium: The Winners and Losers" California Society for Healthcare Attorneys Fall Conference

  • Moderator for the Seminar entitled "Elsa's Ailing Back – Effective Managing Your Worker's Comp Claims" at the California Assisted Living Association Spring Conference

  • Seminar presenter at numerous business broker meetings regarding business sales and purchases

  • Speaker at various Chambers of Commerce, business groups, etc., on developing legal topics and challenges