Developments in Derivatives Law 2024

Thursday, April 11, 2024 | 9:00 am – 12:45 pm

Format: In-Person

Program Co-Chair:
Christian A. Johnson
Widener University Commonwealth Law School

Program Co-Chair:
Lauren Pederson
Wagner Pederson LLP

Program Co-Chair:
Alice Yurke
Dentons US LLP

• Description
• Faculty
• Agenda
• CLE Credit
• Sponsors

• This timely CLE program is designed to update and educate attorneys, whether in-house or in government or private practice, on key developments in derivatives law and regulation. The CLE features the CFTC’s Director of Enforcement as the keynote speaker. CLE panels will discuss event-driven derivatives contracts; artificial intelligence (AI) in derivatives markets; and the important role of derivatives in carbon markets, with a particular emphasis on recent regulatory and market developments. The program will also feature a CLE panel of prominent attorneys from the private sector and government to discuss insights and lessons learned from the U.S. v. Samuel Bankman-Fried and Binance litigation cases.
  Program Fee:
  $229 for Members | $329 for Nonmembers

• What’s New in the AI, Event-Driven and Carbon Market Derivatives Spaces: Developments and Challenges:

  Kristin Delaney
  Director of Product Management for Practical Law (Thomson Reuters)

  Deborah North
  Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

  Charles Mills
  Partner, Bracewell LLP

   

  Keynote Speaker
  Ian McGinley
  Director of Enforcement, Commody Futures Trading Commission

   

  Litigation Developments: Lessons Learned:

  Mark Cohen
  Partner, Cohen & Gresser

  Candice R. Haan
  Senior Trial Attorney, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

  Christian A. Johnson- Moderator
  Widener University Commonwealth Law School

  David Kovel
  Managing Partner, Kirby McInerney

  Nicolas Roos
  Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York

• 9:00 am – 9:05 am
  Welcome and Overview

  9:05 am – 10:20 am
  What’s New in the AI, Event-Driven and Carbon Market Derivatives Spaces: Developments and Challenges [CLE]

  10:20 am – 10:35 am
  Break

  10:35 am – 11:15 am
  Keynote Speaker [Non CLE]
  Ian McGinley, Director of Enforcement, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

  11:15 am – 11:30 am
  Break

  11:30 am – 12:45 pm
  Litigation Developments: Lesson Learned [CLE]

• New York: 3.0 Professional Practice
  New Jersey: 3.0 General
  California: 3.0 General
  Pennsylvania: 2.5 General
  Connecticut: Available to Licensed Attorneys

• Sponsoring Committee:
  Futures and Derivatives Regulation | Ian Cuillerier