Carl Kennedy is a partner in Katten's Financial Services practice. He applies his extensive prior financial services and government experience to assisting financial institutions, clearing firms, asset managers, clearinghouses, exchanges, hedge funds and proprietary trading firms with a full range of regulatory, compliance, transactional and enforcement-related issues in the commodities and derivatives markets.
Carl's prior professional experience includes working as senior in-house legal counsel at a large investment bank and futures commission merchant, providing legal advice and support to the bank’s macro markets and clearing businesses on a variety of legal and regulatory matters. His work also included advising the bank on the implementation of regulations published under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act and other global derivatives regulatory reforms.
