Gravel & Shea legal services
Unrivaled legal depth and uncommon dedication
An award winning real estate law team
Through acquisition, financing, development and disposition of properties throughout Vermont, our attorneys have become the go-to team in real estate projects.
Acquisitions and Sales of Commercial and Residential Properties
Your company’s partner in corporate law
Our business team assists newly-formed and established companies, financial institutions and entrepreneurs in a wide variety of commercial transactions, investments and more.
Passion & expertise right by your side
When it comes time to do battle, having the right litigators on your side does make a difference.
A proven track record in trust & estate matters
Our decades of experience allow us to engage in all facets of estate planning, from family partnerships to long-term trust arrangements and charitable planning.
Protect your intellectual property
We assist clients in identifying, strengthening and protecting some of their most valuable assets: their trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.
Create productive employment and labor relations
Focusing exclusively on representing management in all aspects of the employment relationship, we can help you take the proactive steps necessary to maintain a productive and meaningful employee relations program and to avoid costly litigation.
We are committed to
- Providing unparalleled legal services.
- Upholding the highest ethical standards.
- Providing real value to our clients.
- Offering advice informed by experience, intelligence and good judgment.
with a proven approach built upon
- Thoroughly understanding and prioritizing your goals and objectives.
- Comprehensive research and preparation for every aspect of our work with you.
- Being highly attentive and available to every client, no matter the size.
- Tackling complex challenges through a combination of creativity, practicality and hard work.
Community impact isn’t just for the courtroom
We are deeply committed to our local community—especially now, as we recognize how recent events have affected many of our neighbors.
Community impact isn’t just for the courtroom
We are deeply committed to our local community—especially now, as we recognize how recent events have affected many of our neighbors.
Featured attorney: William A. Mason IV
Chip Mason has been a partner in the Corporate Department of Gravel & Shea since 2006 and a managing partner since 2020. He joined the firm in 2003 after practicing at another prominent law firm in Burlington, Vermont, where he worked primarily on debt and equity financing.
At Gravel & Shea, Chip’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisition transactions and other investment activities, including representing private equity funds and companies in debt and equity financings. Chip also handles other corporate engagements, including structuring agreements among investors, structuring shareholder, partnership and LLC agreements among and on behalf of various investor groups and representing issuers and purchasers in the structuring, issuance and sale of securities.
EDUCATION
University of Maine School of Law, J.D. 1996, cum laude
Notes Editor, Maine Law Review
University of Vermont, B.A. 1991
HONORS
Named 2025, 2023 and 2016 Burlington Lawyer of the Year for Corporate Law in The Best Lawyers in America©
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America© since 2013
Listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business since 2008
Listed in New England Super Lawyers
BV Distinguished rating in Martindale-Hubbell
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
Represented sellers in $75 million sale of franchised fitness centers
Represented borrower in $100 million line of credit financing in sporting gear industry
Represented sellers in $65 million sale of insurance business
Represented seller in $1.3 billion sale of software company
Represented borrower in $350 million line of credit financing in franchised fitness center industry
Represented seller is $80 million sale/rollover in home goods industry