Diane Waller Email and Phone Number

Draft and negotiate mutual fund distribution agreements

• Prepared and negotiated complex agreements/rules with participants in a newly created service which aggregates small foreign exchange transactions into one or more large transactions.• Served as principal attorney for the negotiation and maintenance of account relationships with domestic and foreign central banks in whose currencies transactions are settled by CLS.• Mitigated risk by creating internal procedures to identify credit derivative products which CLS is permitted to settle pursuant to its regulatory mandate. • Interpreted rules and handbook for CLS’ settlement service.• Represented CLS before the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

• Served as principal attorney for DTCC’s multi-million dollar software development outsourcing program.• Served as principal attorney for DTCC’s global corporate actions business; negotiated service agreements with customers and negotiated the software license, maintenance and development agreements with the business’ principal third party service provider. • Prepared and negotiated information provider agreements for various DTCC information service products.• Negotiated license, maintenance, hosting, software development and escrow agreements for various businesses of Omgeo LLC (“Omgeo”), a joint venture between DTCC and Thomson Reuters, and negotiated various service agreements with customers.• Prepared rules and rule filings for GSCC.• Represented GSCC before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.• Attended Board meetings and prepared minutes for GSCC and Omgeo.

• Principal attorney for broker-dealer clearance business; managed staff of one attorney and one paralegal.• Prepared and/or negotiated a wide range of agreements such as consulting agreements, non-disclosure agreements, license agreements, disaster recovery agreements, custody agreements and tri-party repo agreements.

• Corporate associate with a general corporate practice.

• Corporate associate with a general corporate practice.