Edwin E. Smith

Lecturer in Law
Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP
B.A., Yale University
J.D., Harvard Law School

Mr. Smith represents financial institutions and other creditors in domestic and international debt financings, debt restructurings, work-outs and bankruptcies. Mr. Smith also is past chairman of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section, a past President of American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers and a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference. He is also a commissioner on uniform state laws for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and, in that capacity, has served on the Drafting Committees to revise Articles 5 and 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code dealing with letters of credit and secured transactions. In addition, Mr. Smith is a U.S. delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law working group on secured transactions. He co-teaches Transnational Lending and Trade Financing.