William G. Beyer is Of Counsel to the law firm of Keightley & Ashner LLP having joined the firm upon his retirement from government practice at the end of 2004. Throughout his tenure with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation from 1976 to 2004 — including his service as Deputy General Counsel from 1991 to 2004 — Bill has played a central role in virtually all PBGC legislative, regulatory, and litigation matters. As the PBGC’s leading bankruptcy expert, Bill supervised the agency’s legal work in many of the largest bankruptcy cases in the nation, including LTV Steel, Bethlehem Steel, and US Airways. He testified on pension and PBGC issues before the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in connection with the development of bankruptcy reform proposals.

In 1992, Bill received the PBGC’s highest honorary award, the Distinguished Career Service Award. In 2004, President Bush honored Bill with the Distinguished Senior Professional Presidential Rank Award, the nation's highest honor for service as a career civil service executive, to recognize his central role in the PBGC’s success in a number of landmark court cases, his outstanding leadership, and his role as a nationally recognized expert on ERISA and the Bankruptcy Code. Bill is a frequent speaker on a wide variety of PBGC matters at professional conferences, including those sponsored by the American Bar Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute. He has also published many monographs and articles, and teaches an ERISA course in the LL.M. and Certificate in Employee Benefits program as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center (since 1994).

Bill is a Charter Fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel (2000) and was selected for inclusion in Who's Who in American Law (1998/1999 and 2005/2006). He has a J.D. and a Master of Laws in Taxation from the Georgetown University Law Center where he served as staff member and editor of Law and Policy in International Business, Georgetown's Journal of International Law and a B.S. in Business Administration (with highest distinction) from George Mason University. He is a member of the American Bar Association (Sections of Taxation and Business Law), Federal Bar Association, American Bankruptcy Institute, and the bars of the District of Columbia and of Virginia.

Contact information:

William G. Beyer
Keightley & Ashner LLP
700 12th Street, N.W., Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20005
Phone: (202) 558-5150
Fax: (202) 558-5151
Email: billbeyer@keightleyashner.com