Welcome to my personal web site!

My name is W William Woods and this is my personal website, which is intended to provide information about myself and my business interests.

You can contact me here.

I am a lawyer, admitted to practice in Bermuda, England, Wales and Hong Kong. I was admitted to the roll of solicitors in England and Wales in October 1985, admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong in February 1987 and admitted to the Bar in Bermuda in November 1998. I am an associate member of the Canadian Bar Association.

I was a solicitor with Linklaters & Paines in Hong Kong where I specialized in corporate finance work. For three years I acted as Legal Counsel to the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. I then co-founded the International Securities Consultancy, a consulting group based in Hong Kong and London that specializes in advising on the development of both emerging and mature securities markets. From August 1995 to December 2001 I was the CEO of the Bermuda Stock Exchange. Since January 2002, I have been an independent director and a specialist financial services/e-commerce consultant. My clients have included advising the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on a new code of best practice regarding the Corporate Governance of listed companies in 2003; serving for twelve months as the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at an e-commerce venture capital fund in Bermuda in 2002; and advising a specialist, offshore hedge fund administrator.

In November 2003 I founded, and am now the President and CEO of WWWoods & Co. Limited and in March 2004 I co-founded and am currently the President and CEO of Independent Review Inc., both based in Toronto, Canada. I serve as an independent director on the boards of a number of offshore hedge funds, with assets under management ranging from $100 million to over $3 billion and, through Independent Review Inc., specialize in providing independent fund governance services to mutual funds, hedge funds and other investment funds.

During my career I have presented at numerous conferences/events and made many public speeches and published two books on B2B Exchanges and many articles on capital markets (publications).