William D Kerr

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Practice Areas: Partner in Sidley's Chicago office, co-head of the firm's 115 lawyer Investment Funds, Advisers and Derivatives group and a member of the firm's Executive Committee. He represents clients in securities and derivatives-related corporate and regulatory matters, including organization and operation of hedge funds, commodity pools, real estate funds and private equity funds, organization and operation of investment advisers, broker-dealers, commodity pool operators and commodity trading advisors, structured products, and derivatives documentation and regulation.

Personal: Harvard Law School, JD, 1983; Yale University, BA, cum laude, 1980. Admissions: Illinois, New York.