Mr William Avila > Bracewell LLP > San Antonio, United States > Lawyer Profile
Bracewell LLP Offices

Bracewell LLP
300 CONVENT ST.
SUITE 1500
SAN ANTONIO, TX 78205-3753
TEXAS
United States
300 CONVENT ST.
SUITE 1500
SAN ANTONIO, TX 78205-3753
TEXAS
United States
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Mr William Avila

Position
Bill Avila’s practice focuses on public finance law, specifically providing legal counsel, negotiating, drafting documents and securing governmental approvals. He has closed approximately 1,000 transactions, totaling more than $50 billion in aggregate principal amount of municipal bond transactions as bond counsel, underwriters’ counsel, issuer’s counsel, user’s counsel and trustee’s counsel for a variety of public infrastructure and improvement projects.
Education
The National Law Center, George Washington University, J.D., 1981; University of Notre Dame, M.A., Economics, 1978; University of Notre Dame, B.A., Economics, 1977
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Project finance
Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Government > Government relations
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense