William Candelaria is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher  LLP.  His practice focuses on securities, finance, private equity and restructurings.  Mr. Candelaria has extensive experience in U.S. securities law compliance, SEC-registered debt and equity offerings by U.S. companies and foreign issuers, cross-border securitization transactions, debt restructurings, asset and stock acquisitions, contract negotiations, and joint ventures with an emphasis on cross-border ventures.

Mr. Candelaria represents clients in internal corporate investigations and SEC investigations, delisting of publicly traded securities from U.S. national securities exchanges and SEC deregistration, and private placements and off-shore offerings of securities, including high yield bonds, and medium term notes.  He also advises institutional clients in private equity investments and joint ventures.

Mr. Candelaria received his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1995 and served as Supervising Editor of the Harvard Law Review.  He earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1992 from Stanford University.  He is admitted in New York and California.  He is Chair of the Governance Committee, and serves on the Board and Executive Committee of the New York City Economic Development Corporation.  He also serves on the Board of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Mr. Candelaria is the author of "Liberalismo Contra Democracia: Recent Judicial Reform in Mexico," Harvard Law Review, June 1995.  He has served as a moderator on such topics as "Trends in Emerging Markets Securitization" (ABA Section of International Law Fall 2006 Meeting in Miami) and "Cross-Border Offerings and Transactions: Possibility of Funding in International Capital Markets" (South African Securitization and Capital Markets 2005 in Cape Town).  He also served as a faculty member in 2006 at the Practising Law Institute in New York on the topic of "How to Prepare an Initial Public Offering 2006" and in 2005 at Euromoney Legal Training in New York on the topic of "Finance for Lawyers: Accessing U.S. Capital Markets."