SFOA Bürgenstock 2003 - C. Robert Paul

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C. Robert Paul

C. Robert Paul is General Counsel of OneChicago, LLC, an electronic exchange created as a joint venture by the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago to trade security futures products. Since its launch in November 2002, OneChicago has listed futures contracts on 91 individual stocks, including the DIAMONDS® exchange-traded fund. In June 2003 OneChicago introduced futures on narrow-based stock indices into the US by listing contracts on 15 different Dow Jones MicroSector IndexesSM, each of which includes five of the largest and most actively traded equity securities within a focused industry sector.

From October 1999 through January 2001, Mr. Paul served as General Counsel to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, where he advised the Chairman and Commissioners regarding legislation, regulations and rulemaking, litigation, adjudication and ethics and supervised the CTFC's appellate litigation. After representing the CFTC in negotiations with the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission to draft the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets’ report on "Over-the-Counter Derivatives Markets and the Commodity Exchange Act" (November 1999), he led the CFTC's negotiations with the SEC to construct a joint regulatory scheme to permit trading security futures in the US, which was incorporated into the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 passed by Congress in December 2000.

Mr. Paul previously served as in-house counsel to Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. from 1987 to 1997 and Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation from 1997 to 1999. Prior to joining OneChicago in October 2001, Mr. Paul was a partner in McDermott, Will & Emery's Washington, D.C. office.