Bio

Julian Hammar is a partner in the New York and Washington, D.C. offices of FisherBroyles. He focuses his practice on futures, derivatives and commodities, energy regulatory, blockchain and securities matters. Mr. Hammar is a leading expert on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act). Prior to joining FisherBroyles, Mr. Hammar served as of counsel at Morrison & Foerster and special counsel at Covington, where he counselled a wide range of clients on compliance with Dodd-Frank derivatives regulatory requirements. Before his experience in big law, Mr Hammar was an assistant general counsel at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Office of the General Counsel, where he drafted regulations to further define key terms including “swap,” “security-based swap” and “security-based swap agreement,” under the Dodd-Frank Act. In addition, he assisted with drafting other Dodd-Frank Act regulations, including the entity definitions (rules to further define such terms as “swap dealer,” “major swap participant” and “eligible contract participant”), commodity options and the Volcker Rule. He was also a member of the CFTC’s legislative drafting team that drafted the derivatives title of the Obama Administration’s legislative proposal for derivatives regulation that eventually was enacted into law as Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act. Mr. Hammar’s other CFTC experience includes complex matters involving the intersection of securities and futures regulation, including the drafting of CFTC exemptive orders with respect to products on certain exchange-traded funds and joint CFTC/SEC orders excluding certain indexes from the definition of “narrow based security index” and modifying listing standard requirements for security futures products. He also drafted CFTC adjudicatory opinions in administrative enforcement and reparations cases under the Commodity Exchange Act. Mr. Hammar also has bankruptcy experience obtained while at the CFTC, which involved futures commission merchant bankruptcies. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1990 and his J.D. and M.A. in 1996 from Duke University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Alaska Law Review.Mr. Hammar is recommended by Legal 500 US 2019 for Structured Finance. He is also a Member of the Board of Editors of Futures & Derivatives Law Report.