Alban Caillemer du Ferrage is chair of the EMEA and APAC regions of Jones Day's Financial Markets Practice. His practice is global and expands over a broad range of asset classes. Alban has in-depth experience in handling the most complex banking and financial transactions and disputes.
His practice is particularly well recognized in derivatives, securities financing transactions (SFTs), and financial structured products. Alban has been acting as the official French counsel to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) for 25 years and to the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the French Banking Federation (FBF), and the Association of German Banks (BDB) for many years. Alban has notably drafted the ISDA 2002 Master Agreement (French law) and its related collateral documentation.
He is recognized in the market for his mastery of the most sophisticated legal and regulatory issues and for the quality of his relations with regulators and institutions in the Paris financial marketplace.
In recent years, he has carried out numerous major assignments for multilateral global institutions on legislative and regulatory reforms in emerging countries in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.
Alban is a professor at the College of Law of the University of Paris II (Assas), an honorary member of the Legal High Committee for Financial Markets of Paris, a visiting professor at the French National School for the Judiciary (Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature/ENM), an expert and arbitrator at P.R.I.M.E. Finance (The Hague), and a governor of The UNIDROIT Foundation (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law).
He has authored many articles, publications, and reports on financial and international private law issues.
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- August 2019
Loi PACTE et Produits DérivésNew French law (named "PACTE") strenghtens and extends the French safe harbor regime for derivatives, A. Caillemer du Ferrage et N. Debeney, Bulletin Joly Bourse - Septembre-Octobre 2018
Le contrat-cadre ISDA de droit français : évolution ou révolution ?, A. Caillemer du Ferrage et N. Debeney, Bulletin Joly Bourse, - Juillet-Août 2013
Petit "inventaire" de la nouvelle convention-cadre FBF 2013, Revue de Droit Bancaire et Financier
- October 13, 2020
The French and Irish Law Governed ISDA Agreements - speaker - November 5, 2020
Presentation of the report on The French law governed ISDA Master Agreement for the Legal High Committee for Financial Markets of Paris (HCJP), speaker, Webinar - EIFR (European Institute of Financial Regulation) - 12 avril 2018
Finale de la 4ème édition du Prix Jones Day/Paris II/ESSEC - Septermber 8, 2017
Legal High Committee for Financial Markets of Paris (HCJP): BREXIT and clearing of OTC derivatives - May 17, 2017
Cracks in the City? - Brexit & financial contracts - Conference at Sciences Po Paris - May 15, 2017
New FBF EMIR Compliant Collateral Documentation - Conference at the French banking federation - May 12, 2017
Brexit: which future for the banking and financial industry? - Conference at the French Senate - April 20, 2017
Finale of Jones Day/ESSEC/Paris 2 Price 3rd edition - February 2, 2017
New ISDA & FBF Master Agreements, clearing and collateral documentation for derivatives - Development Institute International - June 29, 2016
Brexit: UK votes to leave the EU: What happens next? - 31 mai 2016
Réforme du droit des contrats et du droit des obligations - 2ème volet : enjeux pour les banques et acteurs financiers - February 2016
Structured and Derivative Products Team, seminar co-moderator - February 14, 2013
European Banking – On the Road to Union and Harmonization?
"Alban is the reference in the French derivatives market. He is able to advise financial institutions on strategic transactions in extremely tense situations."Chambers Europe
- University of Paris I (DEA [postgraduate degree] in Business and Private Law 1993)
- Paris
Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2013, including 2024 "Lawyer of the Year" for derivatives and structured finance law in France
Band 1, capital markets/derivatives, Chambers Europe and Chambers Global (recognized since 2005)
Hall of Fame, The Legal 500 EMEA, derivatives and structured finance (recognized since 2005)
1st Prize in Banking/Finance at the Palmarès du Droit awards — Le Monde du Droit-AFJE (2020)
Named an "Innovative Lawyer" by the Financial Times (2010)
- French, English