Aaron’s practice focuses primarily on complex commercial transactions, restructuring and workouts, and corporate and municipal bankruptcies, with an emphasis on providing guidance to institutional investors in connection with their investments in high-yield securities, both tax-exempt and taxable, in both distressed and new-money transactions.
Aaron frequently represents indenture trustees, mutual funds, asset management companies and other sophisticated creditors with respect to defaults, workouts, restructurings, capital recoveries and bankruptcy and other insolvency proceedings. His experience encompasses a wide array of industries and sectors, including hospital and hospital districts, senior living, higher education, charter schools, student housing, affordable and workforce housing, energy and novel project financings.
Aaron also participates in new-money public finance transactions, acting as bond counsel, disclosure counsel and counsel to borrowers, underwriters, purchasers and trustees in tax-exempt and taxable financings by or for the benefit of governmental and non-profit entities across a wide variety of sectors.
During law school, Aaron was Editor-in-Chief of the Uniform Commercial Code Reporter-Digest and Student Director of the Academic Success Program. In addition, he twice served as a teaching assistant for first-year contracts courses and provided advice and counsel to local nonprofits and small business owners as a student attorney in BC Law’s Community Enterprise Clinic. Also during law school, Aaron interned in the City of Boston Law Department, the legal division of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and the in-house litigation department of a national group of title insurance companies. He also served as a research assistant and associate producer for CBS Radio’s Looking at the Law.
viewpoints
Bankruptcy Court Upholds Indian Tribe’s Sovereign Immunity
November 5, 2020 | Blog | By Aaron Williams
Third Circuit Upholds Cramdown, Downplays Subordination Agreement
September 4, 2020 | Blog | By Aaron Williams
Keep On Truckin’: Priority Rules Still Rule in Structured Dismissals
April 11, 2017 | Blog | By Aaron Williams
News & Press
Mintz Announces New Members
December 20, 2024
Mintz announces the election of eight attorneys to Members, effective January 1, 2025. The newly promoted Members join the ranks of the firm’s growing membership, including six new lateral Members who joined the firm in 2024.
Mintz is pleased to announce that 31 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Super Lawyers and 35 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Rising Stars for 2024.
Fifty-Nine Attorneys Recognized as 2023 Massachusetts Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
October 12, 2023
Mintz is pleased to announce that 32 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Super Lawyers and 27 attorneys have been named Massachusetts Rising Stars for 2023.
35 Mintz attorneys have been named Massachusetts Super Lawyers and 25 Mintz attorneys have been named Massachusetts Rising Stars for 2022.
Mintz Pro Bono Service Recognized by U.S. Bankruptcy Court
October 04, 2018
Events & Speaking
In the Eye of the Storm? Lessons Learned from the Essential Housing Wave & Bracing for the Next Winds
NFMA
Salt Lake City, Utah
Recognition & Awards
Massachusetts Super Lawyers: Rising Stars – Bankruptcy: Business list (2022 - 2024)
Served as purchaser’s counsel for the 2021 Bond Buyer Deal of the Year finalist and winner in the Innovative Financing category, awarded to the SCJEDA “RecoverSC” pandemic response financing
Involvement
- Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
- Member, National Association of Bond Lawyers
- Member, National Federation of Municipal Analysts
- Member, Boston Bar Association
- Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
- Trustee, Boston College Law School Publication Trust