Jeffrey Shaffer Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

In house product lawyer covering North American and Latin American corporate derivatives sales desks; rates and credit structuring desks; cash rates trading desks; stable value wrap business. Extensive experience with:• Advising and negotiating a range of rates and credit products, including derivatives, bespoke financings, asset-backed transactions, long form confirms, risk participations, deal contingents, total return swaps, derivatives with an ESG component, electronic trading agreements, stable value wrap agreements• Regulatory reform implementation related to Volcker and Dodd-Frank, including working with technology, program management, operations, compliance, and risk teams• Analyzing new and existing products for Dodd Frank, Investment Company Act, Commodity Exchange Act, securities law, Volcker Rule, US Risk Retention and regulatory characterization issues

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

New York

• Advised investment banking and corporate clients on financing and derivative transactions• Reviewed, drafted and negotiated documentation for leveraged financings, equity derivatives, structured financings and margin financings• Analyzed proposed and final rulemakings, and draft memoranda, comment letters and presentations in response to, security-based swaps internal and external business conduct rules• Drafted memoranda regarding creditors’ rights, commercial law and true sale issues

Kurashiki, Japan

• Taught English conversation to more than 150 students in 7th, 9th, 10th and 11th grades• Developed class materials and speaking exercises for various levels of English proficiency

Doctor Of Law (J.D.), Magna Cum Laude, Order Of The Coif

A.B., Asian And Middle Eastern Studies, Cum Laude