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
Related articles

Publications: 18 January 2023
Allen & Overy partners author U.S. chapter of Legal 500’s Acquisition Finance Comparative Guide 2023
In the new Legal 500: Acquisition Finance Comparative Guide 2023, partners Jake Mincemoyer, Stanimir Kostov, Ilona Potiha Laor, and Karen Buzard along with associates Eugene Pevzner and Dimitar…

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