Instructors in the Banking & Financial Law program

Kevin J. Handly

In May, 2013 Mr. Handly established Kevin J Handly LLC, an independent source of financial regulatory advice and representation. He also maintains an office and an of counsel relationship at the downtown Boston litigation firm, Cooke Clancy & Gruenthal LLP. He advises financial institutions regarding federal and state financial regulations, mergers and acquisitions, investment and […]

Cornelius K. Hurley

Cornelius Hurley has over 35 years of diversified legal, entrepreneurial, and academic experience in the financial sector. His teaching and research interests focus upon the interactions between finance and the real economy. He serves an independent director of Computershare Trust Company, N.A., an element of one of the global leaders in the transfer agent business, […]

Craig W. Kaylor

Craig W. Kaylor is the Vice President of Compliance of PeoplesBank in Holyoke, Massachusetts.  Prior to this position, Mr. Kaylor was the general counsel of Hampden Bank and its parent company, Hampden Bancorp, Inc., a publically traded company . Mr. Kaylor’s areas of expertise include regulatory compliance, risk management, bank secrecy, internal controls and corporate […]

H. Norman Knickle

H. Norman Knickle is an attorney-adviser in the Boston Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC oversees the key participants in the securities world, including securities exchanges, securities brokers and dealers, investment advisors, and mutual funds with a mission to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital […]

Steven B. Levine

Steven Levine is a senior partner at Brown Rudnick, LLP where he has practiced law since graduating from law school in 1981. He regularly represents official and unofficial creditors’ committees, senior and junior lenders, hedge funds, asset purchasers and other constituencies in restructuring matters and the documentation, structuring and recovery of complex financial transactions. With […]

Francis C. Morrissey

Francis C. Morrissey is a partner in the firm of Morrissey, Wilson, & Zafiropoulos, LLP, where he concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial litigation, insolvency and distressed acquisitions and divestitures. Mr. Morrissey is an experienced bankruptcy litigator and counselor who has practiced for more than eighteen years in the field.  His practice encompasses […]

Thomas Murley

Professor Thomas S. Murley (Tom) has been a leader in global renewable and conventional energy infrastructure finance for over 30 years, with experience covering investments in over $20 billion of energy projects around the world as a lawyer, fund manager, and investment committee chair. In 2004 Tom founded the renewable energy investment team at HgCapital, […]

Kathleen M. Phelps

Kathleen Phelps is an assistant general counsel for Ameresco Inc., where she represents the company in the development and financing of its solar and other projects. Prior to this position, she was of counsel in the energy transactions section of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP’s Corporate & Business Transactions Group, where she represented major institutional […]