Bill Mayer is a partner in the firm’s Business Law Department and a member of its Financial Services Group. Mr. Mayer serves as corporate and regulatory general counsel for a number of publicly held financial institutions and financial institution holding companies, as well as a number of community banking organizations. In that role, he advises banking organizations and their boards of directors on a range of corporate, regulatory, governance and transactional matters.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Mr. Mayer is a member of the banking law committees of the Boston and American Bar Associations.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Mr. Mayer frequently lectures on banking and financial service topics to other legal and banking groups.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Mr. Mayer has taught bank and bank holding company mergers and acquisitions at the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law Studies at Boston University School of Law; he also serves on the Center’s Board of Advisors.
Mr. Mayer served as law clerk to the Honorable William H. Timbers, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, for the 1977-1978 term.
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Mr. Mayer is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.
RECOGNITION
Mr. Mayer is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business and The Best Lawyers in America. While in law school, he was an Editor of the Virginia Law Review.