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Rob (Robert J.) Robinson is a seasoned finance professional with expertise in capital markets, structured finance, and securities regulation. He has held senior positions at Newmarket Capital, Nearwater Capital, and Sidley Austin LLP, and has worked at the Bank for International Settlements and Shearman & Sterling LLP. He holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Swarthmore College.

Experience

    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Counsel
      • May 2022 - Present

    • Consultant
      • Jan 2021 - May 2022

  • Nearwater Capital
    • Greater New York City Area
    • General Counsel
      • Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
      • Greater New York City Area

      GC of specialty finance company focused on securitization.

  • Sidley Austin LLP
    • New York, NY
    • Partner
      • Oct 1999 - May 2018
      • New York, NY

      Partner in Sidley Austin LLP's award-winning Global Finance Practice Area Team, based in New York, and a founding member of Sidley's OTC Derivatives Industry Group leadership. Cross-border, transactional law practice, including U.S. financial regulatory counseling (Dodd-Frank Act: Volcker Rule, Title VII OTC Derivatives provisions and Title II Orderly Liquidation Authority provisions) and litigation arising out of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcies. Counsel with legacy firms Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP (2001), Brown & Wood LLP (1999-2001)

    • Official, Attache
      • Oct 1991 - Oct 1998
      • Basel, Switzerland

      First American lawyer on the permanent staff of the BIS, as a member of its Legal Service. Transactional legal counseling, primarily for BIS Banking Department.

  • Shearman & Sterling LLP
    • New York City Metropolitan Area and London, England
    • Associate
      • Oct 1987 - Oct 1991
      • New York City Metropolitan Area and London, England

      Corporate attorney in New York (1990-91 and 1987-88) and London (1988-90) Offices.Sovereign debt restructuring, cross-border securities offerings, project financings, asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) conduit capital structuring.

    • Banking Associate
      • Jul 1982 - Jun 1984
      • Chicago, Illinois, United States

      General Banking Services (commercial lending) Trainee in Chicago, IL head office (1982-83), junior banker in Gulf Coast (Houston, TX) Oil & Gas loan production office (1983-84).

Education

  • 1984 - 1987
    Harvard Law School
    J.D., Written Work Honors (A+) for The Old And New Law Of Corporate Wire Transfers
  • 1978 - 1982
    Swarthmore College
    B.A., Economics, Political Science

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