John Williams

Practice Areas

Based in Milbank’s New York office, John Williams leads the Derivatives practice at Milbank globally and is a member of the firm’s Alternative Investment Practice. Mr. Williams specializes in cleared derivatives, credit derivatives, and Dodd-Frank Title VII regulation. Mr. Williams is noted as a leading attorney 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, Mr. Williams has advised CDS market participants on both the buy and sell side on a range of major CDS market events, including Thomas Cook, Windstream, Sears, Neiman Marcus, Toys R Us, Astaldi, Caesars, and others.

Recognized as one of the top global advisors on CCPs (central counterparties), Mr. Williams regularly advises clients on CCPs and related derivatives market infrastructure issues, such as swap execution facilities, and cleared repo facilities. He 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.

Mr. Williams’ practice also includes advising clients on a range of structured note and credit risks transfer transactions, whether for regulatory capital relief or other purposes.

Mr. Williams’ team is also one of the most active in the energy, infrastructure and transportation finance hedging market.

Career

Lead, Derivatives Practice; Partner, Alternative Investments Practice

Personal

J.D, Yale Law School; B.A., Yale College