Bill Stutts focuses on corporate finance, corporate reorganization, bank regulation, equipment finance, and derivatives. In reorganizations, he has handled licensor and licensee issues covering information technology, and creditor and lessor representation in proceedings involving enterprises in restaurants, financial services, refining, resource extraction, and electronic commerce. He 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' financial regulatory experience involves both structural regulation for financial institutions (affecting mergers, acquisitions, subsidiary and investment vehicle structure, resolution and formation of domestic institutions and the regulatory status of foreign bank operations), and operational regulation (including commercial mortgage administration, money laundering and related sanctions). In other areas, he represents end users and non-dealer counterparties in a wide variety of derivatives and he regularly represents aircraft owners and lessors in several 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, Serbia, Brunei and the Federated States of Micronesia. 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.
Junior Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, 1972-73
American Law Institute admitted 2010
Named “Adjunct Professor of the Year” for the University of Texas Law School, 2012-13 Academic Year
Named “Lawyer for the Year” by The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward White, Inc.) for 2016 for Banking and Finance in Austin
Named “Lawyer for the Year” by The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward White, Inc.) for 2014 for Financial Services Regulation Law in Austin
Named “Lawyer for the Year” by The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward White, Inc.) for 2012 for Banking and Finance in Austin
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward White, Inc.), 1995-2022, most recently in the areas of Banking and Finance Law, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Derivatives and Futures Law, Equipment Finance Law, Financial Services Regulation Law and Securitization and Structured Finance Law
Recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer (Thomson Reuters), 2003-2005 & 2010-2013
Listed in The Legal 500 for bank lending, 2009