William O'Connor

William M. O'Connor is a partner and management board member of Crowell & Moring LLP and chairs the firm's Financial Services group. Bill leads a New York-based creditor's rights team that represents leading financial institutions, special servicers, hedge funds and real estate opportunity funds. Bill is a nationally recognized leader known for his expertise in CMBS special servicing and related aspects of loan workouts, frequently speaking on such issues throughout the country.
He concentrates his practice on creditor's rights litigation, loan workouts, loan portfolio sales and acquisitions, rescue financing, bankruptcies, restructurings, ICC arbitrations, international documentary credits, multinational insolvencies and restructurings, and Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act cases. Bill also has an active international practice involving infrastructure and project finance.
 
Bill is well known as past editor-in-chief of the Westchester Bar Journal. He is a member of the Creditor's Rights Committee of the New York State Bar Association's Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, and of the professional ethics committee of the Westchester Bar Association. He is an elected councilman of the Town of Pelham, NY. In 2006, he was selected as a New York Super Lawyer®.
 
Bill is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Western, Eastern, Southern and Northern Districts of New York and the Districts of New Jersey and Connecticut. He also is admitted to practice before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits, and in New York and New Jersey.
 
Bill obtained his law degree in 1980 from Fordham University, where he was articles editor of the Fordham International Law Journal and a member of the Jessup International Moot Court Team. He received his bachelor of science degree in 1977 from Fordham.