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William J. McGrath is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm’s Chicago office. As a member of the Firm’s Corporate Department, he focuses his practice on business strategy and execution, strategic combinations and alliances, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, finance, investment management activities and alternative investment products. From mid-2000 through the end of 2007, he was a Managing Director of Glencoe Capital Partners III L.P., a $400 million buyout fund making lead sponsored investments. He also served as Vice Chairman and a member of the Investment Committees of Glencoe Capital, LLC, a mid-market private equity sponsor, and its affiliate, Stockwell Capital, LLC, a manager of private equity co-investment capital, which together invested over $1.0 billion of committed capital in approximately 40 transactions on behalf of pension and endowment funds, insurance companies, banks and other institutional investors during this period.
Other businesses represented by Bill on a regular basis have included publicly and privately owned companies, many of which having significant family or foreign ownership, located in the United States, Europe and Asia. His management responsibilities for the Firm have included service for many years on the Firm’s Management Committee and its Executive Committee, specifically during the period of the Firm’s rapid growth into a full-service international firm. During this period, he also chaired the Firm’s first Strategic Planning Committee and its Lateral Recruiting Committee, focusing in particular on the Firm’s expansion in Western Europe and development of its intellectual property, capital markets and private equity practices. He has also served on many of the Firm’s administrative committees, chairing several of them.
He is currently a director of Böwe Bell + Howell Company (a subsidiary of Böwe Systec, AG, a German manufacturer of automated mail and document handling systems). Bill has previously served on the boards of directors of Doane Agricultural Services Company, Hobart-McIntosh Paper Company, Rimrock Corporation, Soft Sheen Products, Inc. and Tomy Corporation (a Japanese-owned manufacturer and distributor of toys, games and software products). He is a member of the U.S.-China Chamber of Commerce, a trustee of the Union League Boys and Girls Foundation, a member of the Advisory Board of Catholic Charities of Chicago and a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Economic Policy and Analysis. He is also a member of the International and American Bar Associations.
Bill has been a lawyer in McDermott’s Corporate Department since 1970 and currently resides in Shanghai serving as practice coordinator between MWE China Law Offices (the Firm’s strategic alliance partner in Shanghai) and the Firm’s worldwide offices. He also provides strategy, marketing and administrative support for MWE China Law Offices.
Education:
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1970
Loyola University Chicago, M.A., 1967
John Carroll University, AB.cl. (magna cum laude), 1965 | 