Aaron M. Williams

Aaron M. Williams is a member of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. in Boston, where his practice focuses primarily on complex commercial transactions, restructuring and workouts, and corporate and municipal bankruptcies, with an emphasis on providing guidance to institutional investors in connection with their investments in high-yield securities, both tax-exempt and taxable, in both distressed and new-money transactions. He frequently represents indenture trustees, mutual funds, asset-management companies and other sophisticated creditors with respect to defaults, workouts, restructurings, capital recoveries, and bankruptcy and other insolvency proceedings. Mr. Williams’s experience encompasses a wide array of industries and sectors, including hospital and hospital districts, senior living, higher education, charter schools, student housing, affordable and workforce housing, energy and novel project financings. He also participates in new-money public finance transactions, acting as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and counsel to borrowers, underwriters, purchasers and trustees in tax-exempt and taxable financings by or for the benefit of governmental and nonprofit entities across a wide variety of sectors. Mr. Williams received his A.L.B. in extension studies from Harvard University, his J.D. from Boston College and his LL.M. in securities regulation from Harvard University. During law school, he was editor-in-chief of the Uniform Commercial Code Reporter-Digest and student director of the Academic Success Program. In addition, he twice served as a teaching assistant for first-year contracts courses and provided advice and counsel to local nonprofits and small business owners as a student attorney in BC Law’s Community Enterprise Clinic. Also during law school, Mr. Williams interned with the City of Boston Law Department, the legal division of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and the in-house litigation department of a national group of title insurance companies. In addition, he served as a research assistant and associate producer for CBS Radio’s “Looking at the Law.”