William H. Hinman joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in 2000 as a Partner, and he is a member of the Firm’s Corporate Department. Areas of concentration include corporate finance, advising both issuers and underwriters in capital-raising transactions, and corporate acquisitions, advising public companies and their boards, including special committees.
Prior to coming to Simpson Thacher, Bill was the Managing Partner of Shearman & Sterling’s San Francisco and Menlo Park offices. Bill has been involved with offerings and acquisitions of high-technology, e-commerce, healthcare and biopharmaceutical companies as well as a variety of offerings and general corporate work for a wide range of issuers and underwriters. In particular, he has been involved in a number of significant initial public offerings, including the IPOs of Alibaba, Facebook, Google, eBay, Agilent, Seagate and VMware. In addition, he has significant experience regarding derivatives, novel securities, and private placements, and has spoken on these subjects at the Annual Institutes on Securities Laws sponsored by the Practising Law Institute. He also has represented boards of directors and their audit committees on a number of governance matters.