Attorney and Consultant
His extensive expertise includes professional liability, strategic counseling, compliance design and supervision, SEC issues, litigation prevention and management, law department administration, and crisis management and media relations.
Mr. Univer served the previous 16 years as General Counsel at a major national accounting firm. In that role, he was responsible for legal and liability insurance matters for the firm, as well as the retention and supervision of outside counsel. Additionally, he acted in a supervisory capacity in advising both the firm’s management and its Board on firm structure, risk management, and other legal matters. He has held previous positions as Assistant General Counsel for a Big Four firm for which he conducted general litigation and coordinated all government financial institution related litigation, nationally, and Senior Litigation Associate for one of the largest international law firms in New York where he conducted litigation through trial and appeal for a diverse array of corporate and government clients.
Mr. Univer graduated magna cum laude from Kenyon College with an A.B. in Political Science, and received both his J.D. and an LL.M. in Criminal Justice from New York University Law School.
Retired Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Upon his resignation as the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State in January 1993, Mr. Williamson rejoined Sullivan & Cromwell's Washington, D.C. office. He originally joined the Firm in 1964 after graduating from New York University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He became a partner of the Firm in 1971, moved to its London office in 1976, returned to its New York office in 1979, moved to its Washington, D.C. office in 1988 and became Of Counsel in 2007. In 2018, he retired from the firm.
At Sullivan & Cromwell, Mr. Williamson engaged in a broad and wide-ranging domestic and international financing and transactions practice, as well as advice with respect to corporate governance issues, the United States’ economic sanctions laws, the ethics rules applicable to government officials and the immunities of foreign sovereigns and international organizations.
Mr. Williamson has been an active participant on panels and other forums involving public international law and national security issues, such as the domestic and international bases for the use of force, the role of the United States with respect to the International Criminal Court, the law of the sea and the application of international legal principles in the war against terrorism.
Mr. Williamson is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, the Executive Committees of the Business and Advisory Committee (BIAC) to the OECD and the U.S. Council for International Business, the United States Advisory Board of NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and the Board of Directors of Triton Oil & Gas Limited.
Mr. Williamson has served on the Boards of Regents and Trustees of the University of the South and as chair of the Board of Regents. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a higher education watchdog.
Auditing and Accounting in the Wake of Global Crossing and Enron
Andrew Cochran, J.P. Donlon, Scott Univer, Roy Brunt, Edwin D. Williamson, J.P Donlon
Transcript from the Auditing and Accounting in the Wake of Global Crossing and Enron panel...