Mr. William T. Reid

William T. Reid, IV is a founding member of Reid Collins & Tsai LLP in New York and has tried a wide range of cases to verdict before judges and juries, including a recent three-week bench trial against Credit Suisse alleging that the investment bank fraudulently syndicated a real estate development loan, in which the trial court awarded a judgment of $287.5 million. His complex commercial litigation practice is national and international in scope, and he currently represents several public companies, HighlandCapital Management, LP, and numerous liquidators, bankruptcy fiduciaries and SEC receivers, among others. Previously, Mr. Reid spent three years as an assistant U.S. attorney during the 1990s, focusing on complex drug and corruption prosecutions, trying 25 cases to verdict (and getting 24 convictions) and prosecuting hundreds of cases annually. Many of his current cases fall within the categories of insolvency litigation, professional malpractice, business fraud and complex financial transactions, and he has handled many cases arising out of Ponzi schemes and cross-border frauds, as well as fiduciary litigation, professional liability cases, bad-faith insurance actions, and claims against the federal government under the Federal Tort Claims Act. Mr. Reid was selected for inclusion in both Lawdragon 500 and The BestLawyers of America for 2016, and he has been recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer for over a decade. He is admitted to practice in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second and Fifth Circuits, the U.S. DistrictCourts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and all of the U.S. District Courts in Texas.Mr. Reid is a member of the American Bar Association, the Fifth Circuit Bar Association, the New YorkState Bar and the State Bar of Texas. Following law school, he clerked for Hon. Reynaldo G. Garza of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Reid received his B.a. in economics and B.S. in accounting cum laude from the University of Connecticut at Storrs, and his J.D. cum laude from St. John?sUniversity School of Law, where he was an editor of the St. John?s Law Review.