Profile: William H Hinman Jr

Capital Markets

Biography: Capital Markets

William H Hinman joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in 2000 as a partner where he is a member of the firm's corporate department. Areas of concentration include corporate finance, advising both issuers and underwriters in capital-raising transactions, and corporate acquisitions, advising public companies and their boards, including special committees.

Mr Hinman has been involved with offerings and acquisitions of high technology, e-commerce, health care, and bio-pharmaceutical companies as well as a variety of offerings and general corporate work for a wide range of issuers and underwriters. In addition, he has significant experience regarding public offerings, derivatives, novel securities, and private placements, and has spoken on these subjects at the Annual Institutes on Securities Laws sponsored by the Practicing Law Institute. He has also represented boards of directors and their audit committees on a number of governance matters.

Mr Hinman was cited as a leading lawyer in the Guide to the World's Leading Capital Markets Lawyers, a practice area directory based on peer reviews and produced by Euromoney Publications LLC.

Mr Hinman received his BA from Michigan State University with honours in 1977 and his JD from Cornell University Law School in 1980 where he was a member of the editorial board of the Cornell Law Review . He is a member of the Bar Association of the State of California and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.