Gregory S. Williams Gregory S. Williams

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Phone: (336) 478-1183

Email: gsw@crlaw.com

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Biography 
Gregory Williams practice emphasizes estate planning and business law and he counsels clients on preserving assets for family members and charitable organizations, and all aspects of forming, operating and transitioning family and closely held businesses. Greg is a frequent lecturer on buy-sell agreements, stock gifting, and transitioning a family owned business from one generation to the next. He is a Board Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and a member of the Estate Planning and Business Law sections of the North Carolina Bar Association.

In 2007, Greg was named Corporate Walk Chair for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Light the Night event, raising awareness to the organization and the disease, and earning the award of “2007 Top Fundraiser.” Greg was raised in Richmond, Virginia. He is married to Wallace, and has two daughters, Rachel and Laura. He is actively involved at Christ United Methodist Church.

Practice Areas
  • Business, Tax, & Estates - Corporate & Business
  • Business, Tax, & Estates - Estate & Personal Planning
  • Business, Tax, & Estates - Estate & Trust Administration
  • Business, Tax, & Estates - Limited Liability Companies & Partnerships
  • Business, Tax, & Estates - Taxation
  • Healthcare Professionals and Practices - Industry Team

    • Recent Matters
  • Developed and implemented a variety of estate planning and estate tax reduction strategies for individuals and professionals, from straightforward wills and trusts to more complex strategies of sales and gifts to grantor trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, and various charitable strategies, including charitable remainder trusts and private foundations.
  • Developed and implemented plans to structure assets from potential creditors of physicians and other healthcare professionals, often including the use of statutory and constitutional exemptions, retitling assets, various trusts and limited liability entities.
  • Handled the negotiation and drafting of business documents for many healthcare practices, including shareholder buy-sell agreements, employment agreements, corporate formation and governance documents, leases, and various agreements between the practices and hospitals and surgical centers.

    Awards/Honors
    Greensboro Host Lions Club - Lion of the Year; 2007 Corporate Walk Chair for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Light the Night

    Community Involvement
    Greensboro Host Lions Club; Kiwanis; Christ United Methodist Church

    Education
    Marshall-Wythe School of Law of the College of William and Mary, 1990

    University of Virginia, B.A., 1987

    Memberships
    Estate Planning and Business Law Sections of the North Carolina Bar Association and American Bar Association; 5 year member of the Society of Financial Service Professionals

    Admitted to Practice in
    North Carolina, 1990

    • Publications/Presentations
      2009 Business & Tax Seminar - Business Owner Estate Planning Case Studies
      CLIENT ALERT: Charitable IRA Rollover
      Lifetime Estate Planning Documents: Often Overlooked, But Always Important (Including the New Medical Directive Statutes)
      Asset protection strategies for professionals and other high risk careers.

    Additional Publications/Presentations
  • Lifetime Estate Planning Documents: Often Overlooked, But Always Important
  • Planning Transfer Tax Planning Today– Answering the 3 Unanswerables
  • Estate Planning and the Estate Tax Repeal: Is the Estate Tax Sun Really Setting or Are We Just Experiencing a Partial Eclipse?
  • North Carolina Case Law on Shareholder Agreements
  • Buy-sell Agreement Case Studies
  • Charitable Giving and Other Advanced Estate Planning Topics
  • Selected Partnership Tax Issues
  • The Securities Risks of Bringing in Investors

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