Bill’s practice focuses primarily on commercial law, workouts, and corporate reorganization. He 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’s and creditor’s perspective, including relief from stay, adequate protection, valuation, preference, fraudulent transfer, subordination, competing plan, and appellate litigation. One of his specialty areas is 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.
He is 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.
Recognitions & Awards
- Chambers USA: Massachusetts – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (2005 – 2013)
- Best Lawyers in America: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation – Bankruptcy (2006 – 2013)
- The International Who’s Who of Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers: Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights (2005 – 2012)
Professional & Community Involvement
- Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy
- Member, American Bar Association Banking and Commercial Law Section
- Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
- Member and past chair, Boston Bar Association Bankruptcy Law Section
- Past co-chair, American Bankruptcy Institute Health Care Insolvency Section
Bill’s practice focuses primarily on commercial law, workouts, and corporate reorganization. He 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’s and creditor’s perspective, including relief from stay, adequate protection, valuation, preference, fraudulent transfer, subordination, competing plan, and appellate litigation. One of his specialty areas is 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.
He is 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.
Recognitions & Awards
- Chambers USA: Massachusetts – Bankruptcy/Restructuring (2005 – 2013)
- Best Lawyers in America: Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation – Bankruptcy (2006 – 2013)
- The International Who’s Who of Insolvency & Restructuring Lawyers
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers: Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights (2005 – 2012)
Professional & Community Involvement
- Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy
- Member, American Bar Association Banking and Commercial Law Section
- Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
- Member and past chair, Boston Bar Association Bankruptcy Law Section
- Past co-chair, American Bankruptcy Institute Health Care Insolvency Section
Speaking Engagements
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Speaker,
Municipal Bankruptcy,
2013 Municipal Bond Buyers Conference,
Scottsdale, AZ
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Speaker,
Bankruptcy,
Introduction to Municipal Bond Credit Analysis,
National Federation of Municipal Analysts (NFMA), Philadelphia, PA
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Panelist,
Developing Litigation Strategy in Response to the Increase of Qui Tam and Whistleblower Cases Proceeding to Trial,
Distressed Credits & Fiscal Emergencies: A New Paradigm for the Municipal Market Advanced Seminar,
National Federation of Municipal Analysts, Detroit, MI
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Panelist,
Municipal Investing: Change We Can Believe In?,
Debtwire Distressed Debt Forum 2012,
New York, NY
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Speaker,
Developments in Chapter 9 Municipal Bankruptcies,
Boston Municipal Analysts Forum, Boston, MA
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Speaker,
Municipal Insolvency: Chapter 9 and Out of Bankruptcy Court Solutions,
Boston Bar Association, Boston, MA
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Panelist,
Pensions and Unions: the Shifting Tide for Public Workers and Implications for Municipal Credit,
The New Era of Austerity and Implications for Municipals,
The Education Committee of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts, Austin, TX
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Speaker,
Mending Broken Bond Deals,
High-Yield Municipal Bond Conference,
Smith’s Research & Gradings, Greenwich, CT
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Speaker,
Chapter 9 Update,
Northeast Bankruptcy Conference,
American Bankruptcy Institute, Newport, RI
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Panelist,
NFMA/MAGNY Symposium: Municipal Fiscal Stress, Bankruptcy and Pensions,
National Federation of Municipal Analysts / Municipal Analysts Group of New York, New York, NY
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Speaker,
Impact of the Great Recession: Not Even the "Essential Service" Utility Providers Are Immune,
Advanced Seminar on Electric and Water Utilities,
National Federation of Municipal Analysts, La Jolla, CA
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Speaker,
When the City Goes Broke: A Guide to Municipal Bankruptcy and Its Alternatives,
Mintz Levin, Webinar
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Speaker,
A Guide to Municipal Bankruptcy,
Mintz Levin, Webinar
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