Bio

William Curtin is Global Head of our M&A practice and advises market-leading companies on their cross-border transactions. Commended by Legal 500 US for his ability to "get impossible deals done" and for his "experience, creativity, availability and business understanding," Bill has been honored as a Dealmaker of the Year by The American Lawyer. Bill offers clients a cross-industry, multi-jurisdictional array of experience having advised many of the world’s leading companies, including Airbus, Arm, Audi, Bernhard Capital Partners, BDT&MSD, BMW, Celanese, Chevron, Citibank, Cloudflare, The Coca-Cola Company, Corning, Cranemere Group, Daimler Truck, Dell Technologies, Ford Motor Company, Gemalto, Goldman Sachs, Henco, Honeywell, IBM, Ingredion, ITT, Kaiser Permanente, Mercedes-Benz, Norges Bank, Ulta Beauty, and Viatris. He has significant international experience practicing out of major commercial centers. From 2003 until 2008, Bill was based in Paris and led the development of our operations in France. From 2008 to 2010, Bill was based in London and served as Head of our European Corporate Group. From 2010 until 2016, he served on the Global Board of Hogan Lovells while based out of the firm's Washington and New York offices. Since 2016, he has served as Global Head of our M&A practice. Bill is a frequent commentator on the state of M&A, with recent appearances on Bloomberg, CNBC, Sky News, and in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and lecturer on corporate law, including at Duke University and the University of Virginia. He is co-author of a comprehensive article on cross-border business combination transactions, cited by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as one of several authoritative sources on such transactions. Bill is fluent in French and has studied at the London School of Economics and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Before law school, Bill spent an academic year in Paris on a Fulbright Scholarship.