Robert Everett Everett Bostrom

Background

Bostrom, Robert Everett was born on November 20, 1952 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

Education

Franklin & Marshall College (Bachelor of Arts, with honors, 1974). The School of Intematonal Affairs, Columbia University (M.I.A., 1976). Boston College Law School (Juris Doctor, cum laude, 1980).

Editor-in-Chief, Boston College International and Comparative Law Review, 1979-1980. Co-Editor, International Practitioner’s Notebook, since 1988.

Career

Worked at Winston & Strawn (Chicago, Illinois) specializing in Alternative Dispute Resolution, Asset Securitization, Corporate and Securities, Financial Transactions, Litigation, Antitrust, Banking, Bankruptcy, Workouts and Financial Restructuring, Commercial Lending, Real Estate, Tax, Energy, Employment and Labor Relations, Employee Benefits, Intellectual Property, Environmental Law, Financial Institutions Regulatory, Health Law, Government Contracts, Immigration, International Trade, Lease Financing, Mergers and Acquisitions, Product Liability, Project Finance, Public Finance, Federal Governmental Relations and Regulatory Affairs, Transportation, Telecommunications and Media, Maritime Law, Trusts and Estates and White Collar Criminal Defense. Admitted to the bar, 1981, New York and United States. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.

Editor-in-Chief, Boston College International and Comparative Law Review, 1979-1980. Executive Vice President, Legal and Regulatory Affairs and General Counsel, National Westminster Bancorp, 1992-1996. Co-Editor, International Practitioner's Notebook, 1988-1993.

Member, Board of Advisors, Mergers and Acquisitions, SNL Securities, 1994—. Author: "Nonbanking Activity Grandfather Rights of Foreign Banks Under Section 8 of the International Banking Act of 1978," 101 Banking Law Journal 468 (1984). "Asset Sales," Bankers Magazine 30-34, November-December (1987).

"Guide for the Establishment of Asset Sale Programs," 4 Review of Financial Services Regulation 71 (1988). Non-Voting Equity Investments by Banks in Non-Bank Companies, 5 Review of Financial Services Regulation 43 (1989). "Mergers and Acquisitions: The Banking Industry," in R. Rupert (Education), The New Era of Investment Banking, (1993).

"Foreigners Sidelined In Merger Game," American Banker, April 23, 1992. "Regulatory Clarification of the Applicability of the Risk-Based Capital Guidelines to Bank-Sponsored Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Programs and Credit Enhancement of Asset-Backed Securities," Duff & Phelps Structured Finance Quarterly, 1992. "Federal Banking Reform: Legislative Proposals," International Practitioner's Notebook (June, 1991).

Lecturer: The SEC Institute: Bank Forum, "Risk-Based Capital Adequacy," 1987 and 1988. Lecturer and Co-Chairperson, Banking Law Institute, Leading Edge Developments in the Securitization of Financial Assets, 1988, 1989 and 1990. Moderator and Lecturer: Institute for International Research, Loan Asset Sales, 1988, 1989 and 1990.

Chairperson and Lecturer: Banking Law Institute, Buying and Selling Loans, 1988, 1989 and 1990. Chairperson and Lecturer, InfoCast, Subordinated Debt and Equity Investments, 1989. Speaker, Investment Management Institute, Cash Investment Strategies, 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992.

Chairperson and Lecturer, Banking Law Institute, Foreign Banks in the United States, 1989. Speaker, Bankers Association for Foreign Trade: Living with the New United States. Supervisory Regime: A BAFT Seminar for Senior United States.

Management of Foreign Banks, 1992, New York. Chairperson and Lecturer: Institute for International Research: Valuing, Investing, Trading and Selling Highly Leveraged Bank Debt, 1992, New York. Speaker, American Banker - Bond Buyer: Managing, Trading and Investing in LDC Debt, 1992, New York.

Speaker: Bank & Financial Analysts Association, Twenty Second Annual Banking Symposium, 1992. Speaker, United States. Banker Forum, 1993; Speaker, Practicing Law Institute, Bank Mergers and Acquisitions, 1994.

Co-Chairman, Strategic Research Institute, Capital Markets Activities of International Banks, 1994 and 1995. Speaker, Bank Director, Bank Merger & Acquisition Forum, 1995 and 1996. Speaker, 6th Annual Foreign Bank Regulation Institute.

Member, Executive Committee, American Branch, International Law Association, 1992-1994. Regulatory Affairs and General (New York, N.Y. Office). Winston & Strawn, founded in 1853, is one of the nation's oldest and largest law firms.

With nearly 525 attorneys in offices in Chicago, New York, Washington, DC, Geneva, Switzerland and Paris, France, the firm provides a full range of legal services to clients throughout the United States and abroad, including Fortune 500 companies, major commercial and financial institutions, governments and governmental entities, as well as small and midsize companies, individuals and entrepreneurs from virtually every industry.

Achievements

• Bar: New York 1981, United States District Court (eastern, southern district) New York.

Membership

Member American Bar Association, International Lawyers Association (executive committee American branch 1992-1994), New York County Lawyers Association (banking committee).

Connections

Married Elizabeth Mitchell Leys, July 14, 1979. Children: Leys, Ashley, Allison.

Spouse:

Elizabeth Mitchell Leys

child:

Allison Bostrom

child:

Ashley Bostrom

child:

Leys Bostrom