| Biography | Bill is a Member in the firm's Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Commercial Law Section. He practices primarily in the area of commercial law, workouts, and corporate reorganization, and has represented various institutional lenders, indenture trustees, bondholders, and other creditors, debtors, and trustees in all manner of insolvency proceedings in courts throughout the United States. His industry experience encompasses municipalities, airlines, hospitals and other health care facilities, retail, telecom, energy and clean tech, waste disposal, military housing, hotels, and educational institutions. He has substantial experience in all phases of bankruptcy litigation, practice and case management from both the debtor and creditor's perspective, including relief from stay, adequate protection, valuation, preference, fraudulent transfer, subordination, competing plan, and appellate litigation. He has a specialty in negotiating sales of troubled companies and assets, both in and out of bankruptcy. His practice also includes addressing bankruptcy and documentation issues in securitizations, receivable sales, bond transactions, and structured financings generally. Bill is also experienced in the growing area of municipal bankruptcies, and recently was quoted in stories in the Wall Street Journal,The Deal,Bloomberg,Law360, and Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review. Bill is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, a member of the Banking and Commercial Law Section of the American Bar Association and the Massachusetts Bar Association, and is a member and former chair of the Bankruptcy Law Section of the Boston Bar Association. He is also active in the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Turnaround Management Association and frequently lectures and writes on insolvency issues in front of these groups and numerous other bar, trade, and industry groups, including the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and the Association of Insolvency Accountants. He served as an editor-in-chief of the American Bankruptcy Institute Health Care Insolvency Manual and served as co-chair of the American Bankruptcy Institute's Health Care Insolvency Section. Bill is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business,The Best Lawyers in America, as well as in The International Who's Who of Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers. He has also been recognized as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer since 2005. Bill is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts; the Court of Appeals for the First, Second, and Seventh Circuits; and the Supreme Court of the United States. He received his A.B. from Wesleyan University (1981) and his J.D., cum laude, from Boston University School of Law (1985). |