Attorney Profile: William Bishop
William Bishop
William D. Bishop, has been practicing law for over twenty years. Mr. Bishop grew up in Oregon and obtained his Bachelor of Science degree at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon in 1984. Mr. Bishop graduated with honors and obtained double majors in both Political Science and Psychology.
While in college, Mr. Bishop received numerous scholarships and was a member of numerous honor societies including Mortor Board and Omicron Delta Kappa. Mr. Bishop received All-American and Academic All-American Wrestling honors during college. Mr. Bishop brings this same dedication and competitive nature to the court room.
Mr. Bishop graduated from Arizona State University College Of Law in 1989. During law school, Mr. Bishop graduated in the top portion of his class, and was selected as a member of the National Moot Court Team. Mr. Bishop received the honor of the Order Of Barristers for outstanding oral advocacy.
After law school, Mr. Bishop worked for large downtown law firms and practiced in the areas of commercial litigation and family law. Since then, Mr. Bishop has focused primarily in the area of financial market regulation. In litigation, administrative proceedings and investigatory matters, he represents a wide range of institutional and individual market participants, intermediaries and others impacted by the federal/state legal and regulatory structure dealing with securities, futures and capital markets. He likewise counsels in regard to compliance and market-related liabilities.
As an advocate for and counselor to issuers, financial intermediaries, the analyst community and other financial market participants, Mr. Bishop brings a unique skill set to bear in representing clients faced with the challenge of navigating market regulatory structures and dealing with the always evolving scope of market-related liabilities. As a litigator, he represents clients in civil cases in state and federal courts, arbitration forums, in administrative proceedings before federal and state regulatory agencies and in matters before securities and futures industry self-regulatory organizations.
His representative multi-dimensional experience includes serving as counsel to the court-appointed Receiver in multiple matters arising out of a $50 million Ponzi Scheme involving, among other things, the manipulation of the market for a publicly traded stock, and the recovery of substantial assets for the benefit of victimized investors while at the same time counseling the Receiver on matters of SEC compliance, valuation, corporate governance and other matters associated with the Receiver’s position as the second-largest shareholder of a public company. In securities litigation, Mr. Bishop’s work has repeatedly earned him recognition.
Mr. Bishop also regularly counsels market participants, particularly financial intermediaries such as broker-dealers, investment advisers and investment managers, on regulatory compliance and licensing matters, and he assists issuers of securities the regulatory aspects of fund formation and the offer and sale of securities in exempt transactions under state and federal securities laws.
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