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Jay Taylor
Managing Partner, Taylor Louis LLP
Location: New York, NY United States
Joined: Oct 3rd, 2013

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Jay L. Taylor, Esq. Biography
Taylor Louis LLP

Jay L. Taylor currently practices in the area of trade and financial risk management, hedging through futures and derivatives and “investment banking/broker dealer” transactions. He specializes in technology start-ups and all areas related to the global trading of swaps and structured financial contracts (with a focus on fixed-income products, energy and commodities, currency, and many other underlying asset classes) and the establishment and maintenance of prime brokerage, project finance and financial contracts. He has over 16 years of experience drafting and negotiating many aspects of structured finance transactions, hedging documentation, project finance deals and related credit support arrangements (including security agreements and guarantees). Mr. Taylor has represented a diverse global client base, including the world’s largest energy and commodity companies, hedge funds, commercial and investment banks and corporate entities. His knowledge of financial hedging structures and financing transactions include credit, equity, commodities, fund, fixed income and options strategies. Mr. Taylor has a breadth and depth of financial transactional knowledge and understands the actual and theoretical framework for synthetic hedging of virtually any underlying asset.

Mr. Taylor handled the wind down and termination of all Lehman derivatives and prime brokerage trades carried by all global clients of one of the world’s largest law firms. He has also served as the point person for global instruction and training in the area of derivatives, prime brokerage and commercial trading and hedging transactions for that same global firm, creating innovative risk management solutions and resolving transactional issues worldwide. Mr. Taylor led a risk analysis project across 4 countries for a large international bank where his team was charged with reviewing and analyzing risk management provisions from approximately two thousand (2,000) financial contracts. He also led a team to review a broad range of financial trading contracts for one of the world’s largest hedge funds, and has served as lead commodities lawyer in the United States for one of the world’s top global investment banks.

Mr. Taylor’s expertise includes credit and security contracts and arrangements, project finance hedging, credit default swaps, total return and equity transactions, commodity swaps, futures, forwards and options, options, interest-rate and currency transactions, prime brokerage relationships, repurchase agreements, arranged financing transactions, securities lending agreements and master netting arrangements. Mr. Taylor’s expertise also extends to the new Dodd-Frank Financial Reform legislation as it relates to new changes in the way hedging is conducted.

Mr. Taylor has a unique view, having worked on both sides of derivatives and financial issues and transactions, through several difficult industry times. He has worked on the broker-dealer side for several major foreign and domestic investment banks such as Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas and Bear Stearns and, alternatively, has represented some of the world’s largest corporate entities, energy and commodity companies, hedge funds and other end-users as lead deal counsel. Adding to his unique perspective is the fact that he interned at federal banking agencies such as the FDIC and OTS and has investigated high profile financial crimes from a forensic perspective as a junior litigator. These experiences provide a very unique dynamic leaving Mr. Taylor at the cutting edge of today’s commercial and investment banking world.

Education (request update)

Howard University class of 1991

Undergrad Major: Political Science

Claim To Fame:

Jay Taylor started his own Wall Street-based law firm, Taylor Louis LLP, in 2012 where he is growing a strong practice and reputation servicing financial entities and existing and start-up enterprises specializing in merging technology solutions with finance.