Colin Lloyd

Practice Areas

General Practice

Broker-Dealer

Capital Markets

Commodities, Futures & Derivatives

Digital Assets

Financial Services

Fintech

Securities & Commodities Investigations

Career

Colin Lloyd is a partner in the Firm’s Commodities, Futures and Derivatives and Capital Markets Groups. He focuses on advising clients on a broad range of securities and derivatives regulatory, enforcement, transactional, and legislative matters. His clients include U.S. and non-U.S. broker-dealers, swap dealers, banks, exchanges, electronic trading platforms, clearinghouses, private equity funds, investment managers, sovereigns, and derivatives end users. He regularly represents clients before various federal regulatory agencies, including the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, as well as other federal regulatory agencies and self-regulatory organizations.

Colin has been at the forefront of lawyers involved in the development and implementation of regulatory reforms in the OTC derivatives market, as well as enforcement matters and internal investigations relating to the market. He also regularly advises clients in relation to blockchain, digital assets and other emerging financial technologies. In these areas he practices before the CFTC, the SEC, and other federal regulators and self-regulatory organizations.

Personal

Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2007); Vanderbilt University (B.A., summa cum laude, 2004).