Bill Mayer Email & Phone Number

As co-chair of Goodwin Procter’s Financial Institutions Group, Bill handles a wide variety of transactions for banking and financial services clients, including mergers, acquisitions, public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, stock conversions, bank and holding company formations, and other reorganizations of financial institutions and holding companies. He also regularly advises foreign and U.S. clients on bank regulatory matters involving the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Comptroller of the Currency, and other state and federal regulatory agencies. Over the past several years, Bill has advised a wide range of financial institution clients on capital and compliance matters arising under the Dodd-Frank Act, the Basel Accords and other regulations, and has counseled institutional and other investors with respect to transactions involving banks and bank holding companies. In his role as outside general counsel, Bill frequently advises banking organizations and their boards of directors on a broad array of corporate, regulatory, governance and transactional matters. Bill has also participated in missions for USAID, the World Bank and the IMF to address financial sector issues in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. He also advises other business clients, nonprofits and individuals on a wide range of corporate, corporate governance and other legal matters. A former chair of Goodwin Procter’s Pro Bono Committee for 10 years, Bill maintains an active pro bono practice, serving on the board of KickStart International, a nonprofit devoted to designing and mass marketing appropriate technology to African farmers, and RefugePoint, a nonprofit organization founded to protect and develop solutions for refugees worldwide. He also serves as counsel and board advisor to Management Sciences for Health, PeaceFirst and the Penikese Island School.

Listed skills include Corporate Law, Litigation, Intellectual Property, Securities Regulation, and 2 others.

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  Partner

  Goodwin Procter Llp

  1986 - Present