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Aaron M. Williams

Associate

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+1.617.348.4964

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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. 

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Third Circuit Upholds Cramdown, Downplays Subordination Agreement

September 4, 2020 | Blog | By Aaron Williams

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently confirmed that bankruptcy plans need not always recognize subordination agreements among creditors.
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In 2015, Distressing Matters reported on the Third Circuit’s decision in In re Jevic Holding Corp., wherein that panel ruled that, in rare circumstances, bankruptcy courts may approve the distribution of settlement proceeds in a manner that violates the Bankruptcy Code’s statutory priority scheme.
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News & Press

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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.

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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.

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35 Mintz attorneys have been named Massachusetts Super Lawyers and 25 Mintz attorneys have been named Massachusetts Rising Stars for 2022.

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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

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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
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