Gordon F.Peery
Partner
Derivatives
gpeery@seyfarth.com
Gordon wrote the book on reforms following the 2008 global financial crisis and today serves market participants, focusing on key industries.
More About Gordon
Gordon is a crisis management, regulatory, and transactional lawyer whose work in the 2008 global financial crisis enabled him to help market participants through the Great Recession of 2008. This work over a decade ago enabled Gordon to be a resource to members of Congress and other law- and policy-makers in countries working to implement new, robust laws to prevent a prolonged recession and depression.
Today Gordon works in the following capacities:
Financial Services
Gordon represents Morgan Stanley and other leading market participants in financial, commodity, real estate, and energy markets, and is a leading investment management lawyer working in several time zones. Gordon is the author of The Post-Reform Guide to Derivatives and Futures (John C. Wiley & Sons, 2012), referred to as "The Guide" in the post-2008 recession era. The winner of the 2012 International Book Award in the category of Law, Gordon’s book has been used as a textbook at Columbia Law School, the Georgetown University Law Center, and Vanderbilt Law School, where he taught as guest lecturer.
Affordable Housing, Public and Private Finance
Gordon has served as bond counsel, issuer’s counsel, investor’s counsel, derivatives counsel, and custodian’s counsel in the issuance of securities in a wide range of debt financings (and refinancings) involving asset-backed securities and derivatives accompanying those securities. As a member of the steering committee for the Institutional Investors practice of the firm, Gordon currently represents a large institutional investor in affordable and mixed-income housing finance and ongoing compliance matters. During the pandemic, Gordon was retained by an affiliate of the US Department of the Treasury to conduct a site visit of an applicant for federal financing. Gordon is increasingly involved in the representation of projects with impact investors seeking community development financial institution (CDFI) financing with investment vehicles benefitting the disadvantaged. Gordon worked as an associate with a leading public finance and securities firm.
New Technology
Gordon leads the Financial Products & Technologies and Blockchain practices and his work underscores the need for new financial technology to help retail, real estate, derivatives, and other markets to properly function during stresses to the markets, pandemics, and other global crises. Gordon has delivered presentations to, and he currently works for leading financial services and real estate investment firms and provides to many of them Blockchain- and Distributed Ledger Technology-related regulatory guidance and counsel with respect to the proper classification of applications as insurance, securities, or commodities (e.g., derivatives, Swaps). Gordon previously worked in a leading law firm with a team representing Lloyds of London and other insurance companies and today, with Willis Towers Watson, counsels a leading investment advisory firm in the development of an insurance and derivatives product which will be the first of its kind in the real estate industry.
National Security, CFIUS, AML, Beneficial Ownership and OFAC
Gordon has a vibrant regulatory practice and regularly advises clients with respect to statutory law and regulations promulgated by the US Department of the Treasury and guidance and regulations issued by other federal departments, agencies, and offices. He submitted comment letters since the recession of 2008, obtained regulatory relief, defended multinational corporations in litigation and enforcement proceedings, and on October 27, 2019, presented comments to national security (CFIUS) rules proposed by the US Department of the Treasury. Gordon leads the CFIUS practice at the firm and has worked closely with a presidential appointee and lead rulemaker and his staff at CFIUS, the US Department of the Treasury, and its Office of Investment Security, and was instrumental in organizing and leading a February 27, 2020 event in the New York office of Seyfarth (where former Assistant Treasury Secretary Thomas P. Feddo and leading private sector CFIUS practitioners discussed final CFIUS rules). Gordon currently represents international and domestic clients in regulatory compliance work while interfacing with CFIUS if and as required by the law and has successfully obtained numerous safe harbor letters from CFIUS to enable non-US clients to do business in the United States within existing statutory law and regulation. Gordon previously worked as a senior associate with a leading K Street lobby firm in high-profile derivatives, real estate, energy, tax, and finance transactions which were the subject of Congressional hearings and legislative initiatives.
Gordon represents a leading Japanese bank, has lived overseas, and speaks Japanese. Before its combination with Dal-Ichi Kangyo and with the Industrial Bank of Japan to form Mizuho Financial Group, Gordon worked as an instructor of beginning and intermediate Japanese to American bankers of The Fuji Bank, Ltd. Gordon has lectured and practiced throughout the US and Canada, and has counseled clients and taught in London, Frankfurt, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, and Brunei. He brought to Seyfarth experience from leading investment management and structured finance firms in North America. Gordon is experienced in facilitating the execution of investment strategies in compliance with the Investment Company Act of 1940 (1940 Act), the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and ERISA.
Derivatives
Gordon began his work as a structured finance associate in 2004 at a leading global finance and real estate practice headquartered in Philadelphia, where he acquired traditional real estate and capital markets experience, including drafting and negotiating whole loans, complex senior-subordinate structures, repo and warehouse credit facilities, and derivatives in asset-backed, commercial and residential mortgage-backed security transactions. Gordon continues his work at Seyfarth as an active contributor to the Structured & Real Estate Finance practice and its clients by negotiating LIBOR replacement language in existing structures and by teaching both internal and external courses on derivatives and structured finance reform after having worked with a team at Seyfarth representing a leading trustee and custodian in transactions involving collateralized loan obligations, floating rate notes, and other complex structures. Today, as the chairman of the Derivatives practice at Seyfarth, Gordon is a leading authority worldwide in the law and regulation of over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives.
Real Estate
Gordon is a partner in the Real Estate practice of the firm. Gordon has a vibrant fund practice where he represents a range of investment vehicles, private equity clients, company pensions, state retirement systems, sovereign wealth funds, and asset managers. These clients hired Gordon to execute primarily derivatives- and real estate-based investment strategies involving complex structures, including, for example, the synthetic replication via derivatives of property ownership and leases. Gordon hails from a line of real estate property and banking ancestors and continues that line while working in the real estate investment space.
Today Gordon works in the following capacities:
Financial Services
Gordon represents Morgan Stanley and other leading market participants in financial, commodity, real estate, and energy markets, and is a leading investment management lawyer working in several time zones. Gordon is the author of The Post-Reform Guide to Derivatives and Futures (John C. Wiley & Sons, 2012), referred to as "The Guide" in the post-2008 recession era. The winner of the 2012 International Book Award in the category of Law, Gordon’s book has been used as a textbook at Columbia Law School, the Georgetown University Law Center, and Vanderbilt Law School, where he taught as guest lecturer.
Affordable Housing, Public and Private Finance
Gordon has served as bond counsel, issuer’s counsel, investor’s counsel, derivatives counsel, and custodian’s counsel in the issuance of securities in a wide range of debt financings (and refinancings) involving asset-backed securities and derivatives accompanying those securities. As a member of the steering committee for the Institutional Investors practice of the firm, Gordon currently represents a large institutional investor in affordable and mixed-income housing finance and ongoing compliance matters. During the pandemic, Gordon was retained by an affiliate of the US Department of the Treasury to conduct a site visit of an applicant for federal financing. Gordon is increasingly involved in the representation of projects with impact investors seeking community development financial institution (CDFI) financing with investment vehicles benefitting the disadvantaged. Gordon worked as an associate with a leading public finance and securities firm.
New Technology
Gordon leads the Financial Products & Technologies and Blockchain practices and his work underscores the need for new financial technology to help retail, real estate, derivatives, and other markets to properly function during stresses to the markets, pandemics, and other global crises. Gordon has delivered presentations to, and he currently works for leading financial services and real estate investment firms and provides to many of them Blockchain- and Distributed Ledger Technology-related regulatory guidance and counsel with respect to the proper classification of applications as insurance, securities, or commodities (e.g., derivatives, Swaps). Gordon previously worked in a leading law firm with a team representing Lloyds of London and other insurance companies and today, with Willis Towers Watson, counsels a leading investment advisory firm in the development of an insurance and derivatives product which will be the first of its kind in the real estate industry.
National Security, CFIUS, AML, Beneficial Ownership and OFAC
Gordon has a vibrant regulatory practice and regularly advises clients with respect to statutory law and regulations promulgated by the US Department of the Treasury and guidance and regulations issued by other federal departments, agencies, and offices. He submitted comment letters since the recession of 2008, obtained regulatory relief, defended multinational corporations in litigation and enforcement proceedings, and on October 27, 2019, presented comments to national security (CFIUS) rules proposed by the US Department of the Treasury. Gordon leads the CFIUS practice at the firm and has worked closely with a presidential appointee and lead rulemaker and his staff at CFIUS, the US Department of the Treasury, and its Office of Investment Security, and was instrumental in organizing and leading a February 27, 2020 event in the New York office of Seyfarth (where former Assistant Treasury Secretary Thomas P. Feddo and leading private sector CFIUS practitioners discussed final CFIUS rules). Gordon currently represents international and domestic clients in regulatory compliance work while interfacing with CFIUS if and as required by the law and has successfully obtained numerous safe harbor letters from CFIUS to enable non-US clients to do business in the United States within existing statutory law and regulation. Gordon previously worked as a senior associate with a leading K Street lobby firm in high-profile derivatives, real estate, energy, tax, and finance transactions which were the subject of Congressional hearings and legislative initiatives.
Gordon represents a leading Japanese bank, has lived overseas, and speaks Japanese. Before its combination with Dal-Ichi Kangyo and with the Industrial Bank of Japan to form Mizuho Financial Group, Gordon worked as an instructor of beginning and intermediate Japanese to American bankers of The Fuji Bank, Ltd. Gordon has lectured and practiced throughout the US and Canada, and has counseled clients and taught in London, Frankfurt, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, and Brunei. He brought to Seyfarth experience from leading investment management and structured finance firms in North America. Gordon is experienced in facilitating the execution of investment strategies in compliance with the Investment Company Act of 1940 (1940 Act), the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and ERISA.
Derivatives
Gordon began his work as a structured finance associate in 2004 at a leading global finance and real estate practice headquartered in Philadelphia, where he acquired traditional real estate and capital markets experience, including drafting and negotiating whole loans, complex senior-subordinate structures, repo and warehouse credit facilities, and derivatives in asset-backed, commercial and residential mortgage-backed security transactions. Gordon continues his work at Seyfarth as an active contributor to the Structured & Real Estate Finance practice and its clients by negotiating LIBOR replacement language in existing structures and by teaching both internal and external courses on derivatives and structured finance reform after having worked with a team at Seyfarth representing a leading trustee and custodian in transactions involving collateralized loan obligations, floating rate notes, and other complex structures. Today, as the chairman of the Derivatives practice at Seyfarth, Gordon is a leading authority worldwide in the law and regulation of over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives.
Real Estate
Gordon is a partner in the Real Estate practice of the firm. Gordon has a vibrant fund practice where he represents a range of investment vehicles, private equity clients, company pensions, state retirement systems, sovereign wealth funds, and asset managers. These clients hired Gordon to execute primarily derivatives- and real estate-based investment strategies involving complex structures, including, for example, the synthetic replication via derivatives of property ownership and leases. Gordon hails from a line of real estate property and banking ancestors and continues that line while working in the real estate investment space.
- JD, Vanderbilt University School of Law
Bennett Douglas Bell endowed memorial honor recipient
Vanderbilt Law School Honor Council, president, vice president and elected member - BA, University of Southern California
International Relations and Political ScienceMagna cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi
- California
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Gordon wrote the book on reforms following the 2008 global financial crisis and today serves market participants, focusing on key industries.
More About Gordon
Gordon is a crisis management, regulatory, and transactional lawyer whose work in the 2008 global financial crisis enabled him to help market participants through the Great Recession of 2008. This work over a decade ago enabled Gordon to be a resource to members of Congress and other law- and policy-makers in countries working to implement new, robust laws to prevent a prolonged recession and depression.
Today Gordon works in the following capacities:
Financial Services
Gordon represents Morgan Stanley and other leading market participants in financial, commodity, real estate, and energy markets, and is a leading investment management lawyer working in several time zones. Gordon is the author of The Post-Reform Guide to Derivatives and Futures (John C. Wiley & Sons, 2012), referred to as "The Guide" in the post-2008 recession era. The winner of the 2012 International Book Award in the category of Law, Gordon’s book has been used as a textbook at Columbia Law School, the Georgetown University Law Center, and Vanderbilt Law School, where he taught as guest lecturer.
Affordable Housing, Public and Private Finance
Gordon has served as bond counsel, issuer’s counsel, investor’s counsel, derivatives counsel, and custodian’s counsel in the issuance of securities in a wide range of debt financings (and refinancings) involving asset-backed securities and derivatives accompanying those securities. As a member of the steering committee for the Institutional Investors practice of the firm, Gordon currently represents a large institutional investor in affordable and mixed-income housing finance and ongoing compliance matters. During the pandemic, Gordon was retained by an affiliate of the US Department of the Treasury to conduct a site visit of an applicant for federal financing. Gordon is increasingly involved in the representation of projects with impact investors seeking community development financial institution (CDFI) financing with investment vehicles benefitting the disadvantaged. Gordon worked as an associate with a leading public finance and securities firm.
New Technology
Gordon leads the Financial Products & Technologies and Blockchain practices and his work underscores the need for new financial technology to help retail, real estate, derivatives, and other markets to properly function during stresses to the markets, pandemics, and other global crises. Gordon has delivered presentations to, and he currently works for leading financial services and real estate investment firms and provides to many of them Blockchain- and Distributed Ledger Technology-related regulatory guidance and counsel with respect to the proper classification of applications as insurance, securities, or commodities (e.g., derivatives, Swaps). Gordon previously worked in a leading law firm with a team representing Lloyds of London and other insurance companies and today, with Willis Towers Watson, counsels a leading investment advisory firm in the development of an insurance and derivatives product which will be the first of its kind in the real estate industry.
National Security, CFIUS, AML, Beneficial Ownership and OFAC
Gordon has a vibrant regulatory practice and regularly advises clients with respect to statutory law and regulations promulgated by the US Department of the Treasury and guidance and regulations issued by other federal departments, agencies, and offices. He submitted comment letters since the recession of 2008, obtained regulatory relief, defended multinational corporations in litigation and enforcement proceedings, and on October 27, 2019, presented comments to national security (CFIUS) rules proposed by the US Department of the Treasury. Gordon leads the CFIUS practice at the firm and has worked closely with a presidential appointee and lead rulemaker and his staff at CFIUS, the US Department of the Treasury, and its Office of Investment Security, and was instrumental in organizing and leading a February 27, 2020 event in the New York office of Seyfarth (where former Assistant Treasury Secretary Thomas P. Feddo and leading private sector CFIUS practitioners discussed final CFIUS rules). Gordon currently represents international and domestic clients in regulatory compliance work while interfacing with CFIUS if and as required by the law and has successfully obtained numerous safe harbor letters from CFIUS to enable non-US clients to do business in the United States within existing statutory law and regulation. Gordon previously worked as a senior associate with a leading K Street lobby firm in high-profile derivatives, real estate, energy, tax, and finance transactions which were the subject of Congressional hearings and legislative initiatives.
Gordon represents a leading Japanese bank, has lived overseas, and speaks Japanese. Before its combination with Dal-Ichi Kangyo and with the Industrial Bank of Japan to form Mizuho Financial Group, Gordon worked as an instructor of beginning and intermediate Japanese to American bankers of The Fuji Bank, Ltd. Gordon has lectured and practiced throughout the US and Canada, and has counseled clients and taught in London, Frankfurt, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, and Brunei. He brought to Seyfarth experience from leading investment management and structured finance firms in North America. Gordon is experienced in facilitating the execution of investment strategies in compliance with the Investment Company Act of 1940 (1940 Act), the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and ERISA.
Derivatives
Gordon began his work as a structured finance associate in 2004 at a leading global finance and real estate practice headquartered in Philadelphia, where he acquired traditional real estate and capital markets experience, including drafting and negotiating whole loans, complex senior-subordinate structures, repo and warehouse credit facilities, and derivatives in asset-backed, commercial and residential mortgage-backed security transactions. Gordon continues his work at Seyfarth as an active contributor to the Structured & Real Estate Finance practice and its clients by negotiating LIBOR replacement language in existing structures and by teaching both internal and external courses on derivatives and structured finance reform after having worked with a team at Seyfarth representing a leading trustee and custodian in transactions involving collateralized loan obligations, floating rate notes, and other complex structures. Today, as the chairman of the Derivatives practice at Seyfarth, Gordon is a leading authority worldwide in the law and regulation of over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives.
Real Estate
Gordon is a partner in the Real Estate practice of the firm. Gordon has a vibrant fund practice where he represents a range of investment vehicles, private equity clients, company pensions, state retirement systems, sovereign wealth funds, and asset managers. These clients hired Gordon to execute primarily derivatives- and real estate-based investment strategies involving complex structures, including, for example, the synthetic replication via derivatives of property ownership and leases. Gordon hails from a line of real estate property and banking ancestors and continues that line while working in the real estate investment space.
Today Gordon works in the following capacities:
Financial Services
Gordon represents Morgan Stanley and other leading market participants in financial, commodity, real estate, and energy markets, and is a leading investment management lawyer working in several time zones. Gordon is the author of The Post-Reform Guide to Derivatives and Futures (John C. Wiley & Sons, 2012), referred to as "The Guide" in the post-2008 recession era. The winner of the 2012 International Book Award in the category of Law, Gordon’s book has been used as a textbook at Columbia Law School, the Georgetown University Law Center, and Vanderbilt Law School, where he taught as guest lecturer.
Affordable Housing, Public and Private Finance
Gordon has served as bond counsel, issuer’s counsel, investor’s counsel, derivatives counsel, and custodian’s counsel in the issuance of securities in a wide range of debt financings (and refinancings) involving asset-backed securities and derivatives accompanying those securities. As a member of the steering committee for the Institutional Investors practice of the firm, Gordon currently represents a large institutional investor in affordable and mixed-income housing finance and ongoing compliance matters. During the pandemic, Gordon was retained by an affiliate of the US Department of the Treasury to conduct a site visit of an applicant for federal financing. Gordon is increasingly involved in the representation of projects with impact investors seeking community development financial institution (CDFI) financing with investment vehicles benefitting the disadvantaged. Gordon worked as an associate with a leading public finance and securities firm.
New Technology
Gordon leads the Financial Products & Technologies and Blockchain practices and his work underscores the need for new financial technology to help retail, real estate, derivatives, and other markets to properly function during stresses to the markets, pandemics, and other global crises. Gordon has delivered presentations to, and he currently works for leading financial services and real estate investment firms and provides to many of them Blockchain- and Distributed Ledger Technology-related regulatory guidance and counsel with respect to the proper classification of applications as insurance, securities, or commodities (e.g., derivatives, Swaps). Gordon previously worked in a leading law firm with a team representing Lloyds of London and other insurance companies and today, with Willis Towers Watson, counsels a leading investment advisory firm in the development of an insurance and derivatives product which will be the first of its kind in the real estate industry.
National Security, CFIUS, AML, Beneficial Ownership and OFAC
Gordon has a vibrant regulatory practice and regularly advises clients with respect to statutory law and regulations promulgated by the US Department of the Treasury and guidance and regulations issued by other federal departments, agencies, and offices. He submitted comment letters since the recession of 2008, obtained regulatory relief, defended multinational corporations in litigation and enforcement proceedings, and on October 27, 2019, presented comments to national security (CFIUS) rules proposed by the US Department of the Treasury. Gordon leads the CFIUS practice at the firm and has worked closely with a presidential appointee and lead rulemaker and his staff at CFIUS, the US Department of the Treasury, and its Office of Investment Security, and was instrumental in organizing and leading a February 27, 2020 event in the New York office of Seyfarth (where former Assistant Treasury Secretary Thomas P. Feddo and leading private sector CFIUS practitioners discussed final CFIUS rules). Gordon currently represents international and domestic clients in regulatory compliance work while interfacing with CFIUS if and as required by the law and has successfully obtained numerous safe harbor letters from CFIUS to enable non-US clients to do business in the United States within existing statutory law and regulation. Gordon previously worked as a senior associate with a leading K Street lobby firm in high-profile derivatives, real estate, energy, tax, and finance transactions which were the subject of Congressional hearings and legislative initiatives.
Gordon represents a leading Japanese bank, has lived overseas, and speaks Japanese. Before its combination with Dal-Ichi Kangyo and with the Industrial Bank of Japan to form Mizuho Financial Group, Gordon worked as an instructor of beginning and intermediate Japanese to American bankers of The Fuji Bank, Ltd. Gordon has lectured and practiced throughout the US and Canada, and has counseled clients and taught in London, Frankfurt, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, and Brunei. He brought to Seyfarth experience from leading investment management and structured finance firms in North America. Gordon is experienced in facilitating the execution of investment strategies in compliance with the Investment Company Act of 1940 (1940 Act), the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and ERISA.
Derivatives
Gordon began his work as a structured finance associate in 2004 at a leading global finance and real estate practice headquartered in Philadelphia, where he acquired traditional real estate and capital markets experience, including drafting and negotiating whole loans, complex senior-subordinate structures, repo and warehouse credit facilities, and derivatives in asset-backed, commercial and residential mortgage-backed security transactions. Gordon continues his work at Seyfarth as an active contributor to the Structured & Real Estate Finance practice and its clients by negotiating LIBOR replacement language in existing structures and by teaching both internal and external courses on derivatives and structured finance reform after having worked with a team at Seyfarth representing a leading trustee and custodian in transactions involving collateralized loan obligations, floating rate notes, and other complex structures. Today, as the chairman of the Derivatives practice at Seyfarth, Gordon is a leading authority worldwide in the law and regulation of over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives.
Real Estate
Gordon is a partner in the Real Estate practice of the firm. Gordon has a vibrant fund practice where he represents a range of investment vehicles, private equity clients, company pensions, state retirement systems, sovereign wealth funds, and asset managers. These clients hired Gordon to execute primarily derivatives- and real estate-based investment strategies involving complex structures, including, for example, the synthetic replication via derivatives of property ownership and leases. Gordon hails from a line of real estate property and banking ancestors and continues that line while working in the real estate investment space.
- JD, Vanderbilt University School of Law
Bennett Douglas Bell endowed memorial honor recipient
Vanderbilt Law School Honor Council, president, vice president and elected member - BA, University of Southern California
International Relations and Political ScienceMagna cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi
- California
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Briefing on LIBOR Replacement in Legacy Contracts: The Federal Reserve Brings Regulatory Life to the LIBOR Act
- Recognized as a Recommended Attorney for Investment fund formation and management - Private equity funds (including venture capital), The Legal 500 (Legalese Ltd.) (2023)
- Author, "Briefing on LIBOR Replacement in Legacy Contracts: The Federal Reserve Brings Regulatory Life to the LIBOR Act," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (January 27, 2023)
- Author, “Distributed ledger technology is revolutionizing the derivatives industry whether global regulators like it or not,” Thomson Reuters Futures and Derivatives Law Report (November 2021)
- Author, "It’s 11:55 a.m. on Monday. Do You Know How Your Interest Is Calculated?," Winter 2021 issue of PREA Quarterly (February 18, 2021)
- Author, "Undeterred by the COVID-19 Pandemic, ARRC Publishes on April 8, 2020 a Methodology for Addressing Differences between LIBOR and SOFR," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 10, 2020)
- Author, "Final CFIUS Regulations Became Effective in February 2020," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 24, 2020)
- Co-Author, "LIBOR’s Anticipated Discontinuation Leads to Focus on Replacement Language," Client Alert, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 22, 2018)
- Co-Author, "The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act Provides Relief and Clarity for the Commercial Real Estate Market,” PREA Quarterly, Pension Real Estate Association (Summer 2018)
- “The Second Digital Revolution and What it Means for Institutional Investors,” PREA Quarterly, Pension Real Estate Association (Spring 2018)
- “Derivatives Rulemaking in a New Era of Global Regulation: Recommendations for the Securities and Exchange Commission as it Finalizes Rule 18f-4,” Futures and Derivatives Law Report, Volume 37 (June 2017)
- “All Financial Regulation in the U.S. Now Subject to Review under February 3, 2017 Executive Order Issued by the President,” Client Alert, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 9, 2017)
- “Historic Risk Management Rules and Practices Go Live on March 1, 2017 in Leading Markets,” Client Alert, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 5, 2016)
- Co-Author, "BRACING for BREXIT - after the shock, what now?" Management Alert, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (June 30, 2016)
- “Advanced Derivatives: ISDA Master Agreement and Credit Support Annexes Masterclass,” UNI Publication and Seminar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (June 2-4, 2014)
- The Post-Reform Guide to Derivatives and Futures, published by John Wiley & Sons (2012)
- “Mastering Advanced Derivatives Documentation: The ISDA/IIFM Ta’Hawwut Master Agreement (TMA),” UNI Publication and Seminar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (November 19-21, 2012)
- “Equity Swap Counterparties Must Consider ISDA Protocol Dealing with New Withholding Taxes on Dividend Equivalent Payments,” Law Firm Alert (September 15, 2010)
- “Global Government Solutions 2010: Mid-Year Outlook,” Law Firm Publication (July 2010)
- “Congressional Overhaul of the Derivatives Market in the United States,” Law Firm Alert (July 21, 2010)
- “With Comprehensive Clearing Mandates, Historic Legislation Poised to Create a Sea Change in Regulation of the U.S. Derivatives Market,” Bloomberg Law Reports, Vol. 1, No. 6 (June 2010)
- “Global Government Solutions 2010 - The Year Ahead,” Law Firm Publication (January 2010)
- Co-Author, “Trading in 2010: What you need to know about Derivatives and Futures Trading in 2010,” Law Firm Webinar and Publication (November 24, 2009)
- “Reporting Rule and So Much More: Setting the Stage for Cap and Trade for U.S. and International Trading Transactions, Environmental,” Law Firm Alert (October 15, 2009)
- “Sweeping Reforms Moving Forward for Credit Rating Agency Practices,” Law Firm Alert (October 13, 2009)
- “September 22, 2009 Deadline Set for Asserting Lehman Claims, Including Derivative and Guaranty Claims,” Law Firm Alert (August 19, 2009)
- “OTC Derivatives Legislation Continues to Take Form, Capital Markets Reform Group Update,” Law Firm Publication (August 11, 2009)
- “Regulators Focus on High-frequency Trading and Market Structure: Flash Orders, Indicators of Interest, Dark Pools and Co-location,” Law Firm Alert (August 5, 2009)
- “Small Bang Protocol Adherence Period Closes on July 24, 2009,” Law Firm Alert (July 21, 2009)
- “Investment Management Update,” Law Firm Alert (Spring 2009)
- “SEC Approves FINRA Rule for CDS Risk Monitoring Procedures and Margin Requirements,” Law Firm Alert (June 15, 2009)
- “Comprehensive Regulatory Framework for OTC Derivatives Proposed as a Prelude to Reform of the U.S Financial System,” Law Firm Alert (May 19, 2009)
- “Reporting Rule and So Much More: Setting the Stage for Cap and Trade for U.S. and International Trading Transactions,” Law Firm Alert (May 8, 2009)
- “TALF Expanded to Include CMBS,” Law Firm Alert (May 5, 2009)
- “Treasury Department May Facilitate Broader Participation in Legacy Securities PPIP,” Law Firm Alert (April 10, 2009)
- “Public-Private Investment Partnerships To Tackle Legacy Toxic Assets,” Law Firm Alert (March 31, 2009)
- “A New Era for Credit Default Swaps,” Law Firm Alert (March 13, 2009)
- “The Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility Takes Form,” Law Firm Alert (March 13, 2009)
- “The Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility in Sharper Focus,” Law Firm Alert (February 23, 2009)
- “Opening Salvo Fired In Financial Market Reform Effort, But Many Battles Lie Ahead,” Law Firm Alert (February 19, 2009)
- “January 30, 2009 Deadline for Lehman Brothers Inc. ‘Customer’ Claims,” Law Firm Alert (January 20, 2009)
- “Global Financial Markets — Legal, Policy and Regulatory Analysis,” Law Firm Publication (November 17, 2008)
- “The Lifecycle of Lehman Trade Fails,” Law Firm Alert (October 27, 2008)
- “Global Financial Markets — Legal, Policy and Regulatory Analysis,” Law Firm Publication (October 24, 2008)
- “Global Financial Markets — Legal, Policy and Regulatory Analysis,” Law Firm Publication (October 6, 2008)
- “Property Derivatives Come of Age,” New Law Journal (August 8, 2008)
- “Cover from the Storm: Federal Regulators Promote Covered Bonds to Stabilize Capital Markets,” Law Firm Alert (August 7, 2008)
- Co-Presenter, "The Property Line: Successful Adoption of SOFR Presents Challenges," Podcast, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (August 22, 2022)
- Co-Presenter, "The Property Line: Managing Rate Caps and Hedges in a Changing Interest Rate Environment," Podcast, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (May 23, 2022)
- "Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Navigating the Business Challenges and Legal Implications - Session 4: The Effect of US Sanctions Against Russia on Commercial Real Estate Documents," Webinar Series, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 14, 2022)
- "Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Navigating the Business Challenges and Legal Implications - Session 3: Legal Excusability/Termination of Contracts Based on the Ukraine Conflict and Russia Sanctions," Webinar Series, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 12, 2022)
- Speaker, The Property Line Podcast - When are Real Estate Transactions Subject to National Security Review? (August 9, 2021)
- Speaker, The Property Line Podcast - Episode 3: Stepping Through the LIBOR Morass: Key Developments, Dates, and What’s Next (January 25, 2021)
- Organizer and Speaker, with Keynote Speaker Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary Thomas P. Feddo, "Treasury Issues Final CFIUS Rules: How Are Transactions With Foreign Parties Affected?" Event sponsored by Seyfarth, and Kroll, a Division of Duff & Phelps, at the offices of Seyfarth, New York, NY (February 27, 2020)
- Speaker, "New Rules – Foreign Investors in US Real Estate (CFIUS)," Rountable, 7th Annual Global Institutional Real Estate Investor Forum, New York, NY (December 12, 2019)
- Panelist, "Blockchain Applications in Real Estate Finance: Mortgage Origination, Securitization and Servicing," Strafford Webinar (October 24, 2019)
- “LIBOR Developments in Derivatives and Elsewhere in Finance” Real Estate & Structured Finance Practice Group Presentation (November 15, 2018)
- “CFIUS in Real Estate Transactions” Quarterly Real Estate Conference Presentation (November 12, 2018)
- “Discovering Your Passion and the Realization that Vienna Waits for You” presentation to the Law and Business Society of Vanderbilt Law School (November 2, 2018)
- “Payment System Law and Blockchain: Square Peg in a Round Hole?” National Blockchain Technologies Specialty Team Meeting, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 25, 2018)
- “Advanced Derivatives: ISDA Master Agreement and Credit Support Annexes Masterclass,” UNI Publication and Seminar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (June 2-4, 2014)
- “Mastering Advanced Derivatives Documentation: The ISDA/IIFM Ta’Hawwut Master Agreement (TMA),” UNI Publication and Seminar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (November 19-21, 2012)