After a tumultuous year and a half, the General has succeeded in taking his company private. William Lyon, chairman and chief executive of Newport Beach-based William Lyon Homes Inc., on Tuesday said that he and two family-controlled trusts completed a buyout of the remaining shares of the homebuilding company they didn't already own, at $109 apiece. The offer values William Lyon Homes at about $940 million. William Lyon Homes will continue as a privately held company, owned by Lyon and the two trusts, the company said. The General tried unsuccessfully to take the company private last year, offering $82 a share. That bid ultimately was scrapped. He made a second attempt in March. Lyon, who then owned about 75% of the company, initially offered $93 a share for the company. He later upped it to $100 and then to $109. William Lyon Homes is calling it a done deal. It's unclear whether a hedge fund that had contested the privatization bid will contest the privatization in court.