Charles R Mills

Practice Areas

Mr. Mills focuses his practice in the areas of derivatives, commodities, crypto and securities trading law. Exchanges, market intermediaries, advisors, traders, end users and product developers turn to him for his deep knowledge of the regulatory agencies, the law, trading and the markets.

He represents these clients in law enforcement investigations and actions, internal investigations, federal court litigation and regulatory compliance counseling involving every market regulator: the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Department of Justice, international regulators, the regulated derivatives and securities trading exchanges, the National Futures Association and FINRA.

Mr. Mills has tried over 60 court cases, administrative proceedings and arbitrations to successful outcomes and prevailed for clients in many appeals. He is the former Chair of the Derivatives & Futures Law Committee of the American Bar Association and a co-author of the treatise Derivatives Regulation (Wolters Kluwer). Mr. Mills taught derivatives and securities law courses for 21 years as an adjunct professor in the LLM program at The Georgetown University Law Center.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association; Bar Association of the City of New York; Energy Bar Association; Board of Editors of the Futures & Derivatives Law Report,; Futures Industry Association Law & Compliance Division; and American Bar Foundation, Lifetime Fellow

Personal

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D.,1977, Dean's List

Occidental College, B.A.,1974, cum laude

President of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Benedictine School for Exceptional Children, Inc.