Walter L. "Walt" Tippett, Jr.

About Walter

Walt Tippett provides legal counsel to professionals and privately held businesses, typically regarding fiduciary relationships, ownership rights, or the development of real estate, technology, or research innovations. With his extensive personal and professional experience in the governance of privately held companies, Walt is adept at handling disputes concerning complex agreements to govern, purchase, sell, finance, and dissolve business ventures. Having developed and financed real property, Walt has personal experience with the governance of closely held companies and commercial lender/borrower/guarantor relationships. Walt particularly enjoys working with clients who improve and finance real estate in eastern North Carolina, where he grew up. These clients include commercial and residential developers and general contractors, financial entities and their borrowers, and a variety of real estate-based professionals. Having developed and financed real property, Walt has personal experience with many issues that come up in the business of improving raw land. He has extensive experience with regulatory and administrative compliance, including matters before the medical, legal, dental, banking, engineering, audiology, general contracting, insurance, environmental and real estate boards, agencies and commissions.

Practice Areas

Civil Litigation Insights

Lawyer for Suing a Company: Costs, Process & What to Expect

What a lawyer for suing a company costs, how the lawsuit process works step by step, how long it takes, and how to decide if hiring counsel is worth it.

Education

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, JD, graduated 1995
• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, BS, graduated 1991

Bar Admissions

• North Carolina, United States

Languages