Ilona Potiha Laor
Partner
New York

Ilona Potiha Laor
Partner
New York
Contact details
Ilona is a Partner in the Leveraged Finance Practice of Allen & Overy’s New York office.
Her practice includes representing lenders, financial institutions and borrowers in connection with a wide range of financing transactions, including leveraged and investment-grade financings, acquisition financings, spinoffs, cross-border financings, debt restructurings, and other secured and unsecured financings.
Published Work
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John C. Coffee, Jr. front cover acknowledgment, “Extraterritorial Financial Regulation: Why E.T. Can't Come Home,” Cornell Law Review (2014)
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Ilona Potiha and Edward F. Greene, “Issues in the Extraterritorial Application of Dodd-Frank's Derivatives and Clearing Rules, the Impact on Global Markets and the Inevitability of Cross-Border and US Domestic Coordination,” 8(4) Oxford University Press, Oxford Journals: Capital Markets Law Journal (2013)
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Presenter and conference participant, Oxford Law and Finance “Derivatives Regulation after the Crisis,” University of Oxford Law Faculty, Columbia Law School, Columbia Business School (June 2-22, 2013)
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Ilona Potiha and Edward F. Greene, “Examining the extraterritorial reach of Dodd-Frank's Volcker rule and margin rules for uncleared swaps--a call for regulatory coordination and cooperation,” 7(3) Oxford University Press, Oxford Journals: Capital Markets Law Journal(2012)
Qualifications
Professional
Academic
J.D., Columbia Law School, 2012
- General S.K. Yee Scholar
- Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
- Notes Editor, Columbia Business Law Review
B.A., Economics, magna cum laude, Columbia University, 2009
- Phi Beta Kappa
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Qualifications
Professional
Academic
J.D., Columbia Law School, 2012
- General S.K. Yee Scholar
- Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
- Notes Editor, Columbia Business Law Review
B.A., Economics, magna cum laude, Columbia University, 2009
- Phi Beta Kappa