About The Author

John F. Hilson Former Professor UCLA School of Law Los Angeles, CA Contact Author

Education:

A.B. in political science, Boston University and J.D., University of Colorado Law School.

Bio:

John Francis Hilson is a former member of the faculty at UCLA School of Law and is a former partner of Paul Hastings LLP. While a partner at Paul Hastings, his practice emphasized finance, including asset-based finance. In that connection, Mr. Hilson represented commercial finance companies, banks, hedge funds, investment banks, and other lenders in the negotiation, documentation, and closing of complex finance transactions. At UCLA School of Law, he taught a foundational course, Transactional Skills, and two capstone courses, Acquisition Financing Transactions and Business Deals. He served as the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section Advisor to the Joint Review Committee (a joint effort of the American Law Institute and the Uniform Laws Commission) regarding Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and served as an Observer to the Uniform Laws Commission’s committee relative to the Uniform Commercial Code and Emerging Technologies. He is a member of the American Law Institute, a fellow (and former member of the Board of Regents) of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, a member of the board of directors of the Commercial Law Amicus Initiative, an editor of The Transactional Lawyer, a former member of the Board of Advisors of the Commercial Law Center at Gonzaga University School of Law, a member of the ABA Uniform Commercial Code Committee, and a past president and a member of the Board of Governors of the Financial Lawyers Conference.