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Michael D Dayan

Michael D Dayan

Global 2026

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Practice Areas

Michael D. Dayan’s practice includes structuring and documenting complex over-the-counter and capital markets derivative products and regulatory analysis of securities, margin, commodities, bank regulatory and insolvency issues relating to derivative products.

Career

Joined firm, 1993; became partner, 2003. Law clerk, Honorable Jon O Newman, US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (1992-93). J.D., magna cum laude, Law Review, Harvard Law School (1992); B.S., summa cum laude, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1986).

Professional Memberships

Member, New York Bar

Former Member, Global Documentation Steering Committee, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Member, Equity Derivatives and Credit Derivatives Market Practice Committees, ISDA

Law Clerk to the Honorable Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

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Major corporations and financial institutions turn to Michael Dayan for advice on derivatives transactions, particularly on equity derivatives.

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