Bill Stutts focuses on corporate reorganization, bank regulation, corporate finance, equipment finance and derivatives. In reorganizations, he has handled licensor and licensee issues, information technology, mining, energy and electronic commerce and has worked extensively with cross-border insolvency issues (principally U.S./Netherlands, U.S./England, U.S./Canada, U.S./Switzerland, U.S./Antigua and U.S./Cayman Islands).

Mr. Stutts’ regulatory experience involves both structural regulation for financial institutions (affecting mergers, acquisitions, resolutions and formations of domestic institutions and the regulatory status of foreign bank operations), as well as operational regulation (including money laundering and related sanctions). In other areas, he represents end users and nondealer counterparties in a wide variety of derivatives and he regularly represents aircraft owners and lessors in various kinds of financing structures.

Following graduation from law school, Mr. Stutts served as a law clerk to The Honorable Homer Thornberry of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. In 1998, he conducted a course on Bankruptcy Judicial Training in Mongolia for the International Law Institute. In addition to the work in Mongolia, he has participated in law reform initiatives in Texas, Botswana, Morocco and Serbia. Since 1998, he has been an adjunct professor at The University of Texas School of Law, where he currently teaches a class on the regulation of financial markets and has previously taught a class on the regulation of money transfers, money laundering and terrorist financing.