William R. Stein is the Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. office of Hughes Hubbard and the Co-Chair of the firm’s Appellate Practice Group. He is a senior litigator with 40 years of experience in complex financial, commercial, and regulatory litigation and investigations.
Bill represents issuers, officers, directors, and professionals in SEC and PCAOB investigations and enforcement proceedings under the securities laws. He has been retained by companies and boards of directors to defend companies and individuals in governmental investigations, and to undertake internal investigations, into allegations of wrongdoing or regulatory non-compliance.
In addition, Bill is a senior advisor to the major accounting firms in legislative, regulatory, public policy, risk management, and structural matters.
Bill represents clients in litigation and arbitration across a wide array of substantive areas, including disputes involving financial instruments and derivatives, contractual matters, fraud allegations, business valuation disputes, auditing and accounting issues, insurance coverage, and product liability.
In recent years, he represented the Trustee in the liquidation of Lehman Brothers, Inc. Bill represented the FDIC and Receiver for IndyMac Bank in the dismissal of MBIA’s attempt to recover $500 million in losses from insuring IndyMac Bank mortgage-backed securities.
He was counsel for the FDIC as Receiver for Washington Mutual Bank in defending against claims for billions of dollars in losses asserted by investors in mortgage-backed securities.
Bill’s appellate practice includes handling appeals in most of the federal circuits and many state appellate courts.
He also has considerable experience preparing briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States at both the certiorari and merits stages, including amicus curiae briefs in cases of significant interest.
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