Bill Mayer is a partner of the firm and co-chairs Goodwin Procter’s Financial Institutions Group. He serves as corporate and regulatory counsel for financial institutions and financial institution holding companies, ranging from global and larger U.S. banking organizations to regional and community banks. As outside general counsel, he regularly advises banking organizations and their boards of directors on a broad array of corporate, regulatory, governance and transactional matters. Mr. Mayer also has 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.

A former chair of Goodwin Procter’s Pro Bono Committee for 10 years, Mr. Mayer 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.

With more than 35 years’ experience in the financial services industry, Mr. Mayer has been repeatedly listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, where clients and peers have lauded him for being “very effective at dealing with a board or with executive management” and noting that he “resolves problems in a sensible way and takes a balanced approach.”