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William McGuinness
Chair, Litigation Department
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
William McGuinness is a litigation partner in Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP's New York office and the chair of the New York office litigation department.
Mr. McGuinness handles a broad range of complex commercial litigation, including cases involving securities, mergers and acquisitions and intellectual property. His practice focuses on the brokerage, securities and financial services industries.
He is also active in the M&A field. He regularly represents issuers and underwriters in shareholder federal securities litigation.
In addition to his active trial practice, Mr. McGuinness also serves as chair of the American College of Trial Lawyers Committee on Attorney Client Relations, has served as chair of the American Bar Association Section on Litigation, Subcommittee on Complex Litigation and as a member of the Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 23. He is a frequent speaker on topics surrounding trial practice issues, corporate litigation, the attorney-client privilege, and the extraterritorial application of the U.S. securities law. He is co-author of the chapter on 'Mergers & Acquisitions' in the multi volume treatise, Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts.
In 2000, Mr. McGuinness was elected a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is consistently recognized by Benchmark: Litigation as a "Local Litigation Star." He is also consistently recognized by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business as a leading individual in Litigation: General Commercial and consistently recognized by Legal 500 in Litigation: Securities - Shareholder Litigation.
Mr. McGuinness received his JD in 1979 from the Columbia University Law School and his BA in 1975 from Columbia University.
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