John Williams

About John Williams

John Williams leads the Derivatives practice at Milbank, working from the New York office.John is a leading expert in credit derivatives, having drafted the ISDA auction settlement terms and led the engagement to establish the ISDA Credit Derivatives Determinations Committees in 2009. Since then, John has advised CDS market participants on both the buy and sell side on a range of major CDS market events, including Windstream, Sears, Neiman Marcus, Toys R Us, Astaldi, Caesars, PDVSA, Argentina, Norske Skog, Novo Banco and others pre-dating even Lehman Brothers and Fannie/Freddie.John is also a leading expert on CCPs and related derivatives market infrastructure. John designed and continues to manage the content for the FIA CCP Risk Review, the leading source of synthesis and analysis on the rules of the world\'s CCPs. John\'s practice also includes advising clients on a range of other derivatives market infrastructure issues, such as swap execution facilities, and cleared repo facilities.John also advises clients on a range of structured note and credit risks transfer transactions, whether for regulatory capital relief or other purposes.His team is also one of the most active in the project and transportation finance hedging market, having closed over two dozen hedges a year in recent years.Specialties: Cleared derivatives, credit derivatives, Dodd Frank Title VII regulation.

Experience

1. Partner

   Milbank LLP

   Jun 2013 — Present · New York, NY, US

Education

• Yale University

  BA, American Studies

  1985 — 1989

• Yale Law School

  Doctor of Law (J.D.)

  1994 — 1997