Jeffrey Golden joined Allen & Overy as a partner in the international capital markets department in 1994 after 15 years with the leading Wall Street practice of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He was the founder partner of Allen & Overy's U.S. law practice and senior partner in our global derivatives practice. He has extensive experience of a wide range of capital markets matters, including swaps and derivatives, international equity and debt offerings, U.S. private placements and listings and mergers acquisitions and joint ventures. He acts for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, was a principal author of ISDA's master agreements and has appeared as an expert witness in several high profile derivatives cases.

He has served on the American Bar Association's working group on the rule of law and economic development (Chair), the Financial Markets Law Committee's working groups on amicus briefs, emergency powers legislation and Enron v TXU (Chair), the Financial Law Panel's working groups on agency dealings by fund managers and other intermediaries and building societies legislation, the Federal Trust's working group on European securities regulation and the European Commission's study group, the City of London joint working group and ISDA task forces on the legal aspects of monetary union and serves as Section of International Law liaison to the ABA's financial markets regulatory reform task force and its derivatives working group (Chair).

Jeffrey is Past Chair of the American Bar Association's Section of International Law, co-chair of its Financial Engineering for Economic Development (FEED) and International Criminal Court task forces, is a former co-chair of its International Securities and Capital Markets and U.S. Lawyers Practicing Abroad Committees and a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He also serves on the Commission on the World Justice Project, the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 and the Steering Committee of the ABA/UNDP International Legal Resource Centre.

He studied at Duke University, the London School of Economics and Political Science and Columbia University School of Law, from which he received his J.D. degree with honours in 1978. He is General Editor of the Capital Markets Law Journal (Oxford University Press) and a member of the Editorial Board of Derivatives Use, Trading & Regulation, a trustee of the International Bar Association Foundation and a member of the International Advisory Board of Columbia Law School, the Duke Global Capital Markets Center Advisory Board and the Joint Editorial Board for International Law of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and ABA International.