William H. Hinman joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in 2000 as a Partner where he is a member of the Firm's Corporate Department.  Areas of concentration include corporate finance, advising both issuers and underwriters in capital-raising transactions, and corporate acquisitions, advising public companies and their boards, including special committees. 

Prior to coming to Simpson Thacher, Mr. Hinman was the Managing Partner of Shearman & Sterling’s San Francisco and Menlo Park offices.  Mr. Hinman has been involved with offerings and acquisitions of high technology, e-commerce, healthcare, and biopharmaceutical companies as well as a variety of offerings and general corporate work for a wide range of issuers and underwriters.  In addition, he has significant experience regarding public offerings, derivatives, novel securities, and private placements, and has spoken on these subjects at the Annual Institutes on Securities Laws sponsored by the Practising Law Institute.   He also has represented boards of directors and their audit committees on a number of governance matters.

Mr. Hinman has been cited as a leading lawyer in a number of a practice area directories based on peer reviews including, The Best Lawyers in America, both the Chambers USA and Chambers Global guides, The International Who’s Who of Capital Markets Lawyers, Practical Law Company’s Global Counsel Handbooks,  and  in Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Capital Markets Lawyers.

Mr. Hinman's recent experience includes representation of: 

• Morgan Stanley and CSFB in the IPO and follow-on offering of Google
• Google, in its acquisition of YouTube, Inc.
• Seagate Technology in a wide range of corporate matters including its $1 billion IPO, high yield bond offering, related refinancings and the acquisition of Maxtor
• Agilent Technologies in connection with a wide range of matters, including the IPO spin of Verigy and its recent $2.5 billion Self Tender
• VMware in connection with general corporate, governance and securities matters
• Morgan Stanley, as underwriter, in a number of debt and equity private placements and public offerings, including the $2 billion IPO spin of Agilent Technologies, the $1.25 billion convertible debt and Euro 690 million Premium Adjustable convertible note offerings of Amazon.com, the IPO of CacheFlow, the $250 million convertible offering of Gateway, and the $750 million convertible note offering of Sanmina
• VERITAS Software on a number of corporate and governance matters including its merger with Symantec
• Underwriters in connection with numerous debt and equity offerings, including those of eBay, FEI, Genomic Health, LSI Logic, LoudCloud, Oracle, TIBCO Software, Micron Technology, Network Associates, NPTest, Symantec, Affiliated Computer Services, Cirrus Logic, dj Orthopedics, Rackspace and NetSuite.

Mr. Hinman received his B.A. from Michigan State University with honors in 1977 and his J.D. from Cornell University Law School in 1980 where he was a member of the Editorial Board of the Cornell Law Review.  He is a member of the Bar Association of the State of California and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.  His bar admissions include both California and New York.

Honors/Associations

•	Latin American Law and Business Report, Advisory Board
•	Bar Association of the State of California
•	Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Speaking Engagements

•	Bill Hinman Speaks at 40th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation in New York November 17, 2008

Admissions

•	New York 1981
•	California 1982

Education

•	Cornell Law School, 1980 J.D. Cornell Law Review, Editorial Board
•	Michigan State University, 1977 B.A. With Honors