Julia Lu
Julia Lu is a partner in the Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP’s Corporate Practice in New York, where she focuses her practice on derivatives, distressed debt and structured credit markets. She advises clients in transactional and regulatory aspects of their trading businesses, and collaborates with them to formulate strategic, pragmatic legal solutions to complex trading and risk-management issues. Ms. Lu has advised numerous clients, end-users and intermediaries alike in connection with well-known CDS credit events, including Sears, Hovnanian, Windstream, iHeartCommunications, Novo Banco (the rescue bank to Banco Espirito Santo) and Caesars Entertainment, among many others. She led RK&O’s engagement to submit an amicus brief on behalf of asset managers with over $150 billion in assets under management to the ISDA Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee External Review Panel regarding the loan<br>deliverability question in the Sears CDS auction. In addition, she represented The Loan Syndications<br>and Trading Association in connection with its lobbying efforts relating to the impact of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act on the loan and loan derivatives markets, and served as counsel to ISDA, the LSTA and industry working groups in collaborative efforts in designing and documenting the standard North American and European loan credit default swap products. Ms. Lu has also represented large hedge funds and investment banks in connection with structured financing transactions collateralized by illiquid financial assets including distressed loans, bonds and related swaps, as well as numerous buy-side and sell-side clients in the trading and investing of tens of billions of dollars of insolvency, litigation and other claims in North America, Europe and Asia (recent debtors included Visa/MasterCard, CDS antitrust litigation defendants, Lehman Brothers, TXU, American Airlines, General Motors, Icelandic banks). She received the Legal Aid Society’s Pro Bono Award in 2000 and is an independent director with the Forchin International Dynamic Value Fund. Ms. Lu received her L.L.B. in 1995 from China University of Political Science and Law and her J.D. summa cum laude in 1998 from<br>Union University Albany Law School.