- Richard Potok
Richard Potok is a leading
lawyer insecurities law , specialising in transnational collateral transactions.He obtained a commerce/law degree from the
University of New South Wales , where he shared theUniversity Medal for law and was aRhodes Scholar . He has worked throughoutEurope and theUnited States , establishing Potok & Co, a consulting firm in the area oflaw reform . Potok is best known for his work at theHague Conference on Private International Law , where he was instrumental in the negotiation, drafting and passage of theHague Securities Convention inDecember 2002 .Potok represented Australia in May 2005 and March 2006 at the first and second sessions respectively of the Committee of Government Experts convened by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) to negotiate a Preliminary Draft Convention on Substantive Rules Regarding Intermediated Securities.
He has worked with a number of
merchant bank s, includingJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. .Potok heads the Native Title Representative Body Professional Development Project, an initiative of several Australian academic institutions aimed at furthering
indigenous Australian native title processes.He has published in the area of
conflict of laws andsecurities law , and is a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales and an Honorary Research Fellow atMonash University .
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