William S. Veatch is a retired attorney living in San Francisco, California. He obtained his B.A. degree in History at the University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (1985), where he also studied Mathematics and Philosophy; his LL.B. law degree at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada (1985); and his J.D. law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California (1987). Bill has extensive transactional experience in the fields of banking, equipment leasing, venture lending and leasing, cross-border leasing, vendor finance, and receivables finance and securitization. He devoted a substantial portion of his practice to advising financial institutions and company clients on the structuring of global equipment and software vendor programs, including the sale and securitization of receivables. Bill served a diverse client base representing U.S. and non-U.S. banks and other institutional lenders and equipment leasing companies in the structuring, documentation, and administration of various forms of complex debt and equity financings, including asset-based and leveraged-lease financings. He also has worked with clients in the container leasing, pharmaceutical royalty monetization, semiconductor equipment manufacturing and leasing, and timber management industries. In addition to his debt, equipment leasing, and receivables finance / securitization practice, he worked on a number of technology innovation projects. He wrote Math Without Numbers — Vol. 1. Foundations (2016), describing a new mathematics of ideas; Propositional Logic as a Boolean Algebra — A New Perspective, Vol. 1 (2017), describing a new “logic of lattices”; and The New Logic of the Law — Building a Foundation for Artificial Intelligence in the Law (2018). Examples of the application of artificial intelligence will be posted on Bill’s webpage from time to time. Bill is a former member of the American Bar Association and the San Francisco Bar Association. He is also a former member of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee of the State Bar of California and a former member of the Legal Committee of the Equipment Leasing Association. Before retiring from the traditional practice of law after 35 years, Bill had been a partner at Cooley, Morrison Foerster, Reed Smith, and Norton Rose Fulbright.
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