The mission of Hubbard Business Counsel is to help businesses both to survive and to thrive in today’s—and tomorrow’s—business, legal, and financial environment. These roles are crucial to that mission: to serve as outside general counsel to middle-market companies and their owners; to help clients make sound business decisions; to help implement appropriate actions, in what are often difficult times; and to aid clients in planning for their futures.
Bill Hubbard has over 24 years of experience helping businesses and their owners. He established Hubbard Business Counsel in 1997, after previously having been a partner in two large Chicago law firms. He graduated from West Point (B.S., 1973), and the Illinois Institute of Technology/Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D., with high honors,1978) and also obtained an Illinois Certified Public Accountant certificate.
He served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army in Berlin and as an Army prosecutor in Augsburg, Germany. He is admitted to practice law in the State of Illinois and is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, the Illinois CPA Society, the Association for Corporate Growth, and the Midwest Business Brokers and Intermediaries Association. He is a member of the Illinois CPA Society Mergers and Acquisitions Special Interest Group Task Force and the Chicago Bar Association Business Law Mergers and Acquisitions Sub-committee. He is a former Director and Past President of the West Point Society of Chicago. Bill lives in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago.
