ALI member William J. Perlstein is leaving WilmerHale to join BNY Mellon as Senior Deputy General Counsel. Effective June 15, he will lead the bank’s Legal Department practice groups focused on government affairs, public policy, and regulatory affairs, and the corporate services legal functions supporting M&A, IT, real estate, procurement and sourcing support, and cyber security.
Mr. Perlstein was elected to the ALI in 1994. A former co-managing partner of WilmerHale, he spent nearly 40 years of his career at the firm. He led the pre-merger law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering for six years prior to its 2004 merger with Hale and Dorr, and following the merger served as the co-managing partner of the combined firm until 2012. He then resumed an active practice as part of the firm's Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group and as a member of the Regulatory and Government Affairs and Strategic Response practice groups.Read more at MarketWatch.