William Lowman

William R. ("Bill") Lowman, Jr. is a founding partner and president of ShuffieldLowman, a full-service business law firm he co-founded in 2003 in Orlando, Florida, alongside W. Charles Shuffield and Lynne R. Wilson. He was admitted to the Florida Bar on September 22, 1994, and holds a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating, the profession's highest peer rating for legal ability and ethics.

Lowman earned a B.B.A. and a J.D. with honors from the University of Miami — where he was an associate member of the *University of Miami Inter-American Law Review* and a member of the Phi Delta Phi honor society — and an LL.M. (a master of laws, typically in taxation) from the University of Florida. His practice spans corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, business taxation, securities, intellectual property, estate planning, charitable trusts and foundations, and executive compensation planning.

His client base runs from small family businesses to some of Central Florida's "Golden 100" companies, and he is frequently described as acting as "more than just an attorney, but also an advisor, counselor, and confidante" to business owners and high-net-worth families. He has been recognized repeatedly by *Best Lawyers in America*, Florida *Super Lawyers* (Thomson Reuters), *Chambers USA* (2026 guide), and *Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers*. He is also active in civic leadership, serving on boards including the AdventHealth Foundation and the Junior Achievement of Central Florida Foundation.

• No publicly stated angel/venture investment thesis was found. His professional focus is legal and advisory, not fund investing.
• Where he intersects with startups and investors, it is as transactional counsel — advising on M&A, securities, corporate structuring, and executive compensation for closely held and family-owned businesses.
• Any founder-facing value is most plausibly as a deal/corporate attorney and connector to Central Florida business owners and high-net-worth families, not as a source of seed capital that can be documented from public sources.