William Eisenstadt
William “Bill” Eisenstadt is a former general counsel with broad experience spanning industries from industrial to technology and the full range of challenges from start-up to large corporations. In his role as outside general counsel, Bill provides the benefits of an in-house general counsel who understands the client’s business without the need and expense of hiring full-time employees. Bill’s experience affords clients practical, result-oriented approaches to the many issues confronting businesses today to enable the client’s businesses, not disable them.
Additionally, Bill represents clients in corporate transactions such as:
Financing // Strategic Planning // Corporate Governance
Joint Ventures // Mergers & Acquisitions
Cost and Budget Management // Human Resources
Legal and Corporate Compliance // Contracts // Real Estate
Bill also has a significant construction law background including deep experience in all aspects of infrastructure construction and operation including alternate delivery mechanisms such as Design-Build, Progressive Design Build, and Design-Build Operate.
Prior Experience
Most recently, Bill was President and CEO of Nautilis Law Group, LLC in Philadelphia, PA. In this position, Bill provided legal advice and business-centered general counsel expertise to small and medium cap companies, developed and implement systems that support client’s growth, built and protect assets and manage risk, and represented clients in complex, long-term multi-million-dollar infrastructure construction and operation projects, including creating multi-entity project delivery teams, structuring and negotiating projects.
Prior to his position with Nautilis, Bill was General Counsel for Synagro Technologies, the country’s preeminent provider of Biosolids and residuals solutions services. They operate in 34 states and serves more than 600 municipal and industrial water and wastewater facilities including cogeneration and advanced processing facilities. Bill served as part of the executive team to provide strategic legal and operational management support for all operating divisions, including M&A; Environmental, Health, Safety & Transportation; and Product Marketing.
From 2002 to 2008, Bill was Vice President and General Counsel for American Water Enterprises Group, located in Voorhees, NJ. From 2000 to 2002, Bill was Vice President of Law and General Counsel for Clariti Telecommunications International, Ltd., a publicly-traded international telecom company with significant wireless technological development and international deployment programs.
In the early part of his career, Bill was Senior Counsel for Consolidated Rail Corporation, the largest freight railroad system in the Northeastern U.S. with operations in 14 states and Canada and annual revenues of $4B. Bill directed legal services for M&A, corporate transactions, contracts, strategic planning, real estate, general corporate governance, and litigation management and served as a member of the company’s strategic planning council. Bill worked with Consolidated Rail Corporation from 1986-2009.
Education
- J.D. with honors, Rutgers University School of Law (1986)
- B.S., Temple University (1980)
Bar Admissions
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
Board Positions
- FLOWatch™, LLC Philadelphia, PA (2011–Present)
- Contribute senior business and management expertise to Information technology/information management service company rapidly deploying a B2B fully user-configurable, secure, web-based Operational Management System.
- FLUID INTELLEGENCE™, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (2015–Present)
- Provide senior business and management expertise to a company that has created proprietary hardware and software to increase conservation/efficiency and water damage protection in business and buildings utilizing IoT (low power, low price, mesh networking, commodity sensors), Cloud Computing, and Machine Learning.