Chinedu Ezetah
Co-chair Markets Legal Digital Assets Working Group @Citi
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WORK HISTORY
Co-chair Markets Legal Digital Assets Working Group @Citi
o Coordinating product legal analysis and advice on new business proposals and initiatives related to digital or digitized securities or similar products, crypto-currencies, stable coins, and central bank digital currencies.o Monitoring, analyzing and providing guidance to business leaders on U.S. and global regulatory trends and developments relating to Crypto-assets and Blockchain. o Driving education and knowledge within the global Markets Legal group. Examples include: hosting a CLE event on the topic of “Digital Assets: A Walk-Through Emerging Case Law Principles and Key Issues Before the Courts”, with Neal Katyal, former Acting Solicitor General and U.S. Supreme Court Specialist, as guest speaker; and doing a presentation on the topic “Crypto-Assets: Product Legal Lens” to the global legal department at Citi.
EDUCATION
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
LLM, International Law
Harvard Law School
LL.M, Banking, Corporate, Finance, and Securities Law
SKILLS
ABOUT CHINEDU EZETAH
Digital Assets, Derivatives, Structured Finance- Co-Chair of the Markets Legal Digital Assets Working Group at Citi. Extensive experience with emerging regulatory frameworks for Digital Assets - Lead lawyer and manager of a product legal team that supports OTC and cleared derivatives business at a global bank and a leading futures commission merchant- Structured finance attorney at U.S. premier law firms, private equity investments in convertible preferred stock and warrants, mandatory convertible securities products backed by prepaid forward stock purchase contracts - Fire Side chat with the head of BIS Innovation Hub on the topic of Central Bank Digital Currencies at the September 2021 Quadrilateral Conference - Speaker on Updates on Regulatory Developments in FinTech in the United States at the 2018 Quadrilateral Meeting at the European Central Bank (Frankfurt)Investment Funds and Alternative Investments Strategies - Deputy General Counsel at a $4 billion multi-strategy hedge fund. Counsel on private equity investments, event and capital structure driven arbitrage strategies, negative basis trading strategies, credit derivatives, distressed and emerging markets trading strategies, algorithmic and discretionary/managed index platforms and linked debt instruments. Regulatory- Extensive experience with the U.S. Dodd-Frank Act, Securities, Commodities and Investment Adviser laws - Extensive experience with cross-border impacts of financial regulatory reforms in the EU and US- Speaker on Redefining the Bank Holding Company through Regulation: From Volcker to Physical Commodities at the FIA 2014 Law & Compliance ConferenceCapital markets securities and corporate transactions- Debt shelf registration statement (registering notes, warrants & purchase contracts)- Global offering (equity and debt)- Tender offer and acquisition- Asset purchase- Strategic private equity investments in convertible preferred stock and warrants- Documentation for a multi-seller extendable asset-backed CP funding program that utilizes market value swaps as liquidity back-stop- Prepaid gas purchase transaction, including the issuance of variable rate revenue bonds by the gas purchaser to finance the prepayment thereof- Emerging markets foreign exchange indexed loans and medium term note programs.
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