Bob Williams is a partner in the Finance and Bankruptcy Practice Group in the firm's Los Angeles office. He also serves as the firm's Chief Talent Officer, with managerial responsibility for the recruiting, professional training and performance evaluation of the firm's associates, as well as for the firm's diversity and inclusion activities.

Areas of Practice

Over the years, Mr. Williams' practice has included work in almost all areas of real estate practice. In recent years, his practice has focused upon representation of lenders, including domestic and foreign banks, insurance companies and other financiers. His work has included documentation of construction loans, permanent loans, "mini perms," unsecured and "borrowing base" credit facilities, and negotiation of real estate loan "workouts."

A large portion of Mr. Williams' work involves representation of lenders in tax-exempt financing of affordable housing projects. He has represented lenders who purchase multifamily housing revenue bonds in private placements. He has also assisted lenders who provide "direct pay" letters of credit in "lower floater" financings and "backup" letters of credit in bond financings in which other financial institutions provided long-term credit enhancement.

Mr. Williams has represented nonprofit developers of affordable housing on a pro bono basis through the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Public Counsel Affordable Housing Project.