William Stern is a partner in the firm's Financial Institutions Group and a member of its Banking, Consumer Financial Services, and FinTech Practices. Mr. Stern works on a variety of transactional and regulatory matters for Goodwin Procter's financial services clients. Mr. Stern regularly advises depository institutions and their holding companies on compliance with regulatory requirements related to capital, affiliate and insider transactions, permissible activities and investments, anti-money laundering rules, privacy requirements, trust department and asset management operations, and consumer protection. He provides regulatory advice related to merger and acquisition transactions undertaken by the firm's financial services clients as well as advising on change in control requirements related to investments in financial institutions.