William Bresee’s legal practice focuses on commercial transactions of clients ranging from multinational corporations to entrepreneurial enterprises, and corporate organization and administration, as well as providing legal services related to electrical power, petroleum, industrial and civil facilities for United States and foreign corporations, governmental entities and joint ventures. Diverse areas include international sourcing of material, contractor-subcontractor and owner-vendor issues, private placements, research and development projects, investments in high technology concerns, “partnering” and other joint venture vehicles, corporate planning and structure, and construction, financing, equipment leasing, and various commercial agreements involving United States, European, Asian and Middle Eastern business concerns.
Bill was Captain of the Supply Corps, United States Naval Reserve (Retired). He is very active with his family, which includes three children in high school. He also works in his local community as an Executive Committee member of the Foothill Presbyterian Hospital Foundation, the Glendora Unified School District School Site Council, and he coaches in youth sports and serves as a Boy Scout leader. Bill is a member of the State Bar of California, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, where he served on and chaired International Law Section Executive Committee, and the American Bar Association, chairing the Steering Committee of International Contracting Division on the Forum on the Construction Industry. He is admitted to practice in the State of California, the Central, Southern and Northern Districts of the U.S. District Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. He received his B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles, and a Juris Doctor with honors from the University of San Francisco.