Dave Dallas serves as general outside counsel for privately owned businesses. His practice focuses principally on strategic planning, business structurings and financings, mergers and acquisitions, management incentive and succession planning, large commercial and real estate transactions and dispute resolution for businesses and estate stakeholders. Clients benefitting from Dave’s counsel include petroleum jobbers, service contractors, software and biotech development companies, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, insurance brokers, freight delivery companies, internet service providers and many others.
Dave Dallas serves as general outside counsel for privately owned businesses. His practice focuses principally on strategic planning, business structurings and financings, mergers and acquisitions, management incentive and succession planning, large commercial and real estate transactions and dispute resolution for businesses and estate stakeholders.
Clients benefitting from Dave’s counsel include petroleum jobbers, service contractors, software and biotech development companies, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, insurance brokers, freight delivery companies, internet service providers and many others.
Responsive and pragmatic, Dave has substantial experience providing business, legal and tax advice to C and S corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies. He approaches problems and decisions with common sense and judgment tempered by experience. That experience includes management buyouts, venture financings, shareholder derivative actions, workouts, freezeouts, tax-free mergers and leveraged and non-leveraged stock and asset purchases for both public and private companies.
Dave is the founding partner of Williams Mullen’s Charlottesville office, which opened in 2000. He is a former member of the firm’s board of directors and past chair of its Diversity & Inclusion Committee. For clients needing legal assistance across practice areas, Dave can help identify and manage the deep legal resources that Williams Mullen offers.
Dave is deeply committed to serving the Charlottesville community. He is actively involved in the Central Virginia Partnership for Economic Development and served as chair in 2016-2017. He also serves as director and treasurer of the Boys and Girls Club of Central Virginia Education Foundation, and he is a trustee emeritus of the Shenandoah National Park Trust. He is a former director of the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council and the Virginia Piedmont Technology Council.
Before attending law school at the University of Virginia, Dave worked as a consultant in Arthur Andersen & Company’s Management Information Consulting Division, where he designed, programmed and installed custom information retrieval and reporting systems for government agencies and businesses.
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61 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite for 2020
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10.23.2020
COVID-19 Comeback Plan: 10 Pandemic-Influenced Operations, M&A and Finance Ideas for Executives
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08.20.2020
116 Williams Mullen Attorneys Listed in 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©; Most Total Lawyers in Virginia
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12.04.2019
55 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite for 2019
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08.15.2019
15 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named "Lawyers of the Year" by Best Lawyers®
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08.15.2019
119 Williams Mullen Attorneys Listed in 2020 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©
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04.10.2019
47 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named to 2019 Virginia Super Lawyers List; 17 Named 2019 Rising Stars
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11.30.2018
45 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine’s Legal Elite for 2018
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08.15.2018
110 Williams Mullen Attorneys Listed in Latest Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©
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04.18.2018
53 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named to 2018 Virginia Super Lawyers List; 20 Named 2018 Rising Stars
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12.01.2017
46 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named to Virginia Business Magazine's 2017 'Legal Elite'
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08.14.2017
114 Williams Mullen Attorneys Listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2018
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04.14.2017
54 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named to 2017 Virginia Super Lawyers List; 21 Named 2017 Rising Stars
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12.07.2016
50 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named to Virginia Business magazine’s 2016 ‘Legal Elite’
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08.15.2016
100 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named 2017 Best Lawyers in America
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02.17.2016
56 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named 2016 Virginia Super Lawyers; 22 Named 2016 Rising Stars
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12.10.2015
Dave Dallas Profiled for Virginia Business' 'Legal Elite' Issue
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12.09.2015
50 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named to Virginia Business magazine’s 2015 ‘Legal Elite’
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08.17.2015
15 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named 2016 “Lawyers of the Year” by The Best Lawyers in America
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08.17.2015
106 Williams Mullen Attorneys named 2016 Best Lawyers in America
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04.10.2015
Williams Mullen Virginia Attorneys Named 2015 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
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12.01.2014
Williams Mullen Attorneys Named to Virginia Business magazine’s 2014 “Legal Elite”
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08.18.2014
100 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named 2015 Best Lawyers in America
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06.20.2014
Williams Mullen Virginia Attorneys Named 2014 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
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12.04.2013
Williams Mullen Attorneys Named to Virginia Business magazine’s 2013 “Legal Elite”
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08.16.2013
100 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named 2014 Best Lawyers in America
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06.21.2013
Williams Mullen Virginia Attorneys Named 2013 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
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12.03.2012
Williams Mullen Attorneys Named 2012 Virginia “Legal Elite”
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09.27.2012
Nine Williams Mullen Attorneys Named 2013 “Lawyers of the Year” by The Best Lawyers in America
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09.13.2012
104 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named 2013 Best Lawyers in America
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06.19.2012
Ninety-Five Virginia Williams Mullen Attorneys Recognized by “Super Lawyers” for 2012
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12.01.2011
Williams Mullen Attorneys Named 2011 Virginia “Legal Elite”
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09.29.2011
Williams Mullen Attorneys Named 2012 Best Lawyers in America
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09.20.2011
SEC Will Not Appeal Proxy Access, but Shareholder Proposal Amendments Will Take Effect in 2012
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08.26.2011
Dodd-Frank Proxy Access Rule Vacated – Implications for 2012
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06.27.2011
47 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named “Virginia Super Lawyers” and 35 Named “Virginia Rising Stars” for 2011
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02.21.2011
Dodd-Frank Update: Say-on-Pay and Say-on-Frequency
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12.02.2010
Seventy-two Williams Mullen Attorneys Named to 2010 "Legal Elite"
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08.06.2010
Ninety-Eight Williams Mullen Attorneys Named "Best Lawyers in America" 2011
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06.23.2010
2010 Virginia Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Announced
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12.01.2009
Williams Mullen Attorneys Receive More ‘Legal Elite’ Distinctions than Any Other Firm in Virginia
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07.30.2009
Eighty-five Attorneys Named "Best Lawyers in America" 2010
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06.25.2009
2009 Virginia Super Lawyers and Rising Stars Announced
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12.05.2008
Eighty-one Williams Mullen Attorneys Named “Legal Elite” in Virginia
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10.01.2008
Williams Mullen Facilitates New Global Partnership for Client REI Drilling
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09.17.2008
Eighty-one Attorneys Named "Best Lawyers in America 2009"
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08.05.2008
Williams Mullen Advises Adenosine Therapeutics in Acquisition by Clinical Data
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06.26.2008
Virginia Super Lawyers and Rising Stars for 2008 Announced
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02.20.2014
The Missing Voice on Gender Equality: Men Speak Up!
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09.29.2009
Petroleum Marketer Compliance 101