Bio

Bill Fay has extensive experience advising clients on major corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity transactions and securities offerings. He also regularly advises the firm’s public company clients with respect to the federal securities laws and corporate governance matters, including Exchange Act reporting, ESG matters and shareholder activism. His clients engage in a wide variety of industries, including banking, consumer products, luxury goods, mortgage origination and mortgage servicing, healthcare and technology. Bill also serves as Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where he teaches “Business Planning.” Prior to joining Barack Ferrazzano in 2015, Bill practiced in the Chicago office of Sidley Austin LLP as a member of the Corporate and Securities group.