• Provide advice and guidance to financial institutions and corporate clients in a wide array of capital markets transactions and other matters involving derivatives, structured products, margin requirements, regulatory and compliance matters related to derivatives, ISDA documentation, Dodd-Frank and LIBOR cessation.• Represent financial institutions serving in trustee and various other capacities in numerous transactions, including global financings, corporate and municipal financings, TIA qualified and exempt financings, secured and unsecured debt transactions, securitizations, collateral agencies, private placements, project financings, administrative agencies, conduit financings, defaults, bankruptcies and restructurings.

• Legal lead and adviser on derivatives regulations, swap dealer rules, ISDA documentation and derivatives products for project teams at major financial institutions. Provided guidance and advice to regulatory reform teams at Citigroup and other major financial institutions on implementing banking regulations, including Dodd-Frank, the margin rules and resolution planning. Liaised with major clients and develop strategies to attain successful outcomes on major regulatory projects.• Ensured that major projects are run efficiently and successfully.

• Provided strategic guidance and advice on a global basis to senior management and business units on bank regulatory matters and compliance. Successfully represented the bank at policy meetings with regulators and industry groups in DC and NY (including the Fed, OCC, SEC, CFTC, FDIC, U.S. Congressional staff, SIFMA and ISDA). Provided clear and concise analysis and interpretation of complex regulations and developed efficient and effective policies. • Advised trading desks, marketers, credit officers and senior management in connection with all types of derivatives, fx, structured products and other innovative and cutting-edge transactions.• Legal lead on implementation projects for Dodd-Frank Swap Dealer regulations and Volcker. Successfully analyzed complex regulations and developed practical approaches to new regulations.• Foster a consensus on complex issues by keeping the lines of communication open and clearly and concisely explaining the issues.• Resolved numerous high profile matters during the financial crisis. Optimized results and preserved tens of millions of dollars in some of the largest workouts, restructurings and bankruptcies in history.

• Had primary responsibility for all the legal and regulatory matters of the bank’s international derivatives subsidiary, SMBC Capital Markets, Inc.• Provided strategic guidance and leadership in connection with the development of new products and complex structured transactions.• Provided tactical advice in connection with successful outcomes in what was then Japan’s largest bankruptcy (Japan Leasing Corporation).• Supervised other attorneys in connection with the preparation and negotiation of derivatives documentation.