Ross Pazzol

Ross Pazzol focuses his practice on a broad range of financial services matters. He concentrates on, and has significant experience in, the regulation of broker-dealers, futures commission merchants, investment companies and hedge funds, clearing houses and investment advisers. He also has significant experience in all aspects of exchange-traded and over-the-counter derivatives transactions and securities financing and lending arrangements, and assists clients in understanding the documentation issues and regulatory and credit considerations that arise in connection with these transactions. He also represents hedge funds, commodity pools and proprietary trading firms on a wide variety of corporate and regulatory matters, and has advised a number of financial services firms on mergers and acquisitions, private securities offerings and general employment matters.

Mr. Pazzol is a member of the Futures Industry Association Law & Compliance Division and serves on a number of ISDA Working Group committees. Mr. Pazzol began his career in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Market Regulation.

Mr. Pazzol earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1982, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his Juris Doctor from Loyola University of Chicago School of Law in 1987, where he served as the articles editor for the Loyola Law Review. He is admitted to practice in Illinois.