Mr Jeffrey Robins > Debevoise & Plimpton LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Jeffrey Robins
Work Department
Jeffrey L. Robins is a corporate partner and a member of the Banking Group.
Position
His practice focuses on representing broker-dealers, swap dealers, banks, securities exchanges, industry associations and buy-side institutions in regulatory and transactional matters.
Throughout his career, Mr. Robins has carved out a reputation as a leading broker-dealer and derivatives lawyer with a sophisticated practice. He has substantial experience helping clients navigate registration, margin, capital, custody, and sales and trading issues, cross-border transactions, structuring transactions using multiple regulated entities, the development of compliance and supervisory policies and procedures, the regulatory characterization of securities and derivatives transactions and a number of other regulatory issues. He also has extensive transactional experience in bilateral financing and derivatives transactions, particularly those that are heavily regulated.
Career
Mr. Robins joined Debevoise in 2018. Prior to joining Debevoise, Mr. Robins was a partner at an international law firm, where he also served as co-chair of the firm’s Financial Services Group.
Education
Mr. Robins received his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and earned an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies and a B.A. with distinction from Stanford University.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Financial services regulation
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP offers a highly specialized team dedicated to a full gamut of regulatory, litigation and transactional factors affecting banking institutions, foreign banks, and affiliated broker-dealers. Apart from its traditional clientele, the firm is also retained by non-bank institutions looking to enter the space or offer banking products, which includes insurers and private equity firms. Led by Satish Kini in Washington DC, a name to note for leading industry trade associations facing regulatory reform issues and Gregory Lyons in New York, with experience representing private equity firms in their investments, the team is capable with regard to Volcker Rule matters, US bank formation as well as foreign bank and M&A-related regulation. Corporate expert Jeffrey Robins is another standout in New York, acting for broker-dealers, swap dealers and securities exchanges in a range of matters, accompanied by recently promoted Caroline Swett, a key contact for domestic and foreign banks seeking regulatory, enforcement and transactional advice.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)