William Burgess currently serves as Dickinson Wright’s Chairman. From 2010 through 2018, Burgess served as Dickinson Wright’s Chief Executive Officer, overseeing all aspects of the Firm’s professional and business operations, strategic planning, client relations, and business expansion.
For more than 20 years, served as counsel to secured lenders (including banks, insurance companies, lending syndicates, administrative agents, collateral agents, and loan servicers) in all aspects of workouts, restructurings, loan modifications, and enforcement of remedies.
Burgress is the Counsel for the Rose Hill Center, Inc., the co-author of “Strategies for Secured Creditors in Workouts and Foreclosures,” and a contributing author in “Private Equity (History, Governance and Operations).”
Burgess has been honored by several organizations, including Best Lawyers in America, DBusiness, and Michigan Super Lawyers.
Burgess earned his J.D. from Yale Law School and his A.B. with high honors and distinction from the University of Michigan. He is also a graduate of Leadership Detroit.