Bob Paul is a member of the alternative asset management team within DLA Piper’s Corporate and Finance group, resident in the New York office. As a leading practitioner in matters pertaining to commodities, futures and derivatives, Mr. Paul has represented securities, futures and commodities exchanges, investment banks, broker-dealers, futures commission merchants, investment advisors, managed futures funds, hedge funds and other market innovators in a variety of transactions and has counseled them on a wide range of issues under the Commodity Exchange Act and US securities laws. In addition, Mr. Paul regularly speaks on derivatives, futures and securities regulation before industry and professional groups throughout the US and Europe, and has participated in various international regulatory organizations.

Prior Experience

From October 1999 through January 2001, Mr. Paul served as General Counsel to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where he negotiated a joint regulatory structure with the Securities and Exchange Commission for security futures and played a significant role in the passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. After a brief tenure as a partner in the Washington, DC office of McDermott, Will & Emery, he was appointed General Counsel of OneChicago, LLC, which he helped launch in 2002 as the first exchange in the US to trade security futures products, including futures contracts on individual equity stocks and narrow-based stock indices.

From 2005 to 2007, he served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the Philadelphia Board of Trade. Immediately prior to joining DLA Piper, Mr. Paul was engaged as an independent consultant by several start-up exchanges and trading facilities offering innovative products in the electricity and weather markets.

Mr. Paul also served as in-house counsel to Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. from 1987 to 1997, Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation from 1997 to 1999 and Cargill, Incorporated from 2004 to 2005.

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