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Jeffrey is a specialist arbitrator, mediator and expert with broad experience of a wide range of capital markets matters, including swaps and derivatives, international equity and debt offerings, US private placements and listings, and mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He has acted extensively for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA and has appeared as an arbitrator and expert witness in several high-profile derivatives cases. General editor of the Capital Markets Law Journal (Oxford University Press). Recent book publications include: editor of and contributor to first, second, third and fourth editions of published hardback book ‘The International Capital Markets Review’ (Law Business Research); consulting editor for C Jordan, ‘International Capital Markets: Law and Institutions’ (DUP 2014); ‘Treatises’; ‘International Financial Disputes: Arbitration, Law and Practice’ (with Carolyn Lamm and contributions by Lord Collins, Sir William Blair and others, Oxford University Press, 2015); the chapter ‘The Future of Financial Regulation: The Role of the Courts’ in ‘The Future of Financial Regulation’ (MacNeil & O’Brien, eds., London, 2010); the chapter ‘Do We Need a World Court for the Financial Markets?,’ in ‘The Hague: Legal Capital?’ (D. Vriesendorp et. al., eds., Hague, 2008); and many more.

Practiced for more than 15 years in New York and London offices of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Former founding partner of US law practice at Allen & Overy LLP and senior partner in the firm’s global derivatives practice, 1994. Honorary fellow, LSE; Governor, LSE; Visiting Professor in the Law Department LSE (2010-2013); former chairman of the LSE Alumni Association (2011-2013); chairman of P.R.I.M.E. Finance Foundation in The Hague; former chairman of the Society of English and American Lawyers (SEAL); former chairman of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of International Law, co-chairman of its Financial Engineering for Economic Development (FEED) and International Criminal Court Task Forces and a former co-chairman of its International Securities and Capital Markets and U.S. Lawyers Practicing Abroad Committees; Section Delegate, ABA House of Delegates; Served on ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 and the Steering Committee of the ABA/UNDP International Legal Resource Center; Life Fellow International co-chairman of the American Bar Foundation; elected member, American Law Institute (ALL).

International Advisory Board of Columbia Law School; Duke Global Capital Markets Center Advisory Board; Lexis PSL Banking and Finance Lawyers Consulting Editorial Board; Advisory Board of the Global Law and Finance Network of Columbia Law School, Oxford University and Frankfurt University; International Lawyers for Africa Advisory Committee.

Duke University (1972 BA (Magna Cum Laude)); London School of Economics and Political Science (1971 General Course;1975 PhD (S.H. Bailey Scholarship)); Hague Academy of International Law (1974 Certificate in Public International Law); Columbia University School of Law (1978 J.D. (David M. Berger Memorial Prize; International Fellow) (Hons)).