GORDON F. PEERY has lectured in London, Hong Kong, Toronto, Brunei, Kuala Lumpur, and the United States on the 2008 market crises and derivatives reform. Since representing a leading investment bank in televised Enron hearings in Congress, Mr. Peery developed a global legal practice exclusively devoted to derivatives and futures clients. In his seventeenth year in large firm legal practice, Mr. Peery is a partner who counsels governments, sovereign wealth funds, international investment advisors, states, counties, global investment management clients, funds, managed accounts, real estate firms, energy companies, and individuals as a leader within the Derivatives and Structured Products Practice of K&L Gates LLP, one of the ten largest law firms in the world. Mr. Peery has actively contributed to International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) and the Futures Industry Association (FIA) working groups and has taught for ISDA. He has helped shape the next generation of derivatives and futures documentation and has authored or coauthored over thirty articles on derivatives and futures. He holds degrees from Vanderbilt Law School (JD, recipient of the endowed Bennett Douglas Bell Memorial Award) and the University of Southern California, where he graduated with a double-major, magna cum laude, as a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
