Bill Bohnett joined Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. in the firm's New York office as a partner in 1991. He has a broad-based corporate and securities practice with an emphasis on investment company and investment advisor representation. His work also includes the ongoing general representation of a number of open-end mutual funds and the investment advisers of those funds. He generally consults with a variety of clients on investment company and advisory issues involving all aspects of the Investment Company and Advisers Acts and has been a faculty member at the Practicing Law Institute's '40 Act Institute.

Mr. Bohnett additionally has acted as counsel to offshore direct and portfolio investment funds which focus on global or country-specific investments. For example, he has represented funds investing in Latin America, Korea, China, Spain and the Philippines which have been organized and/or listed in a variety of locations through the world.

From 1989 to 2004, Mr. Bohnett represented The First Philippine Fund, a New York Stock Exchange-listed investment fund whose assets were invested solely in the Philippines. With the Board and senior management, he made 17 trips to Manila and other parts of that country during that period. Such trips included extensive due diligence activities and interviews with Presidents Aquino, Ramos, Estrada and Arroyo and numerous cabinet members of those administrations. 

Mr. Bohnett's transactional work has included counseling issuers or underwriters on more than 80 significant corporate financings, including offerings of common and preferred stock, mortgage bonds and other debt securities, and initial public offerings and private placements. He has also represented several venture capital-backed private companies in their corporate work and has worked with clients on broker-dealer regulatory compliance matters.

Since 2009, Mr. Bohnett has been a member of the National Board of the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum and research complex.  Effective November, 2010, Mr. Bohnett is also a Member of the Council on Competitiveness, a Washington, D.C.-based non-partisan, non-governmental organization consisting of CEOs, university presidents, non-profit and labor leaders working on national competitiveness issues.  He has also been a member since 2003 of the Board of Directors of The Synergos Institute, a New York-based non-profit that works with foundations, NGOs, governments and multinational corporations globally to combat poverty, and is the Chair of its Nominating and Governance and Audit Committees. 

Mr. Bohnett is a member of the New York State and American Bar Associations and the ABA's Section of Business Law.

After receiving an A.B. in 1970 from Princeton University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, he was admitted to practice law in New York in 1975.