Alban Caillemer du Ferrage

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.