William L. Wallander
William L. Wallander is a partner and practice group leader of the Restructuring & ReorganizationPractice Group of Vinson & Elkins LLP in Dallas, and he has more than 20 years of experience in complex restructuring and reorganizations across a broad spectrum of clients and industry lines. He rep-resents debtors, agents and lending groups, bondholder and note holder groups, funds and committees, and has also served as an expert witness in bankruptcy court in connection with class-action securities litigation. His industry experience includes aerospace, agriculture, chemicals, commodities, construction, defense, energy (upstream, midstream, downstream, renewables), derivatives, financial services, health care, hotel, legal, manufacturing, mining, mortgage finance, power, public finance, commercial real estate, retail, shipping, technology and transportation. Mr. Wallander is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Texas’s Bankruptcy Section (for which he serves as chair-elect), theNew York Bar Association and the Dallas Bar Association’s Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section,ABI, the Texas Bank Association, the Texas Bar College and the Turnaround Management Association.He is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, a Life Fellow of the Dallas Bar Foundation, and a member of the Chancellor’s Council and Littlefield Society of the University of Texas. Mr. Wallander is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Texas Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of the State of New York, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth and Tenth Circuits, and the U.S. DistrictCourts for the Northern, Eastern, Western and Southern Districts of Texas and the District of Arizona.He has been listed in Chambers Global, Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America, Texas SuperLawyers, Euromoney and Who’s Who Legal in Texas for insolvency and reorganization law. Mr. Wallander received his B.A. magna cum laude in political science and economics from the University ofPittsburgh in 1981, his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1984 and his M.B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Phoenix in 2001.