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Jeffrey Golden KC (Hon) is a specialist arbitrator, mediator and expert with broad experience of a wide range of capital markets matters, including swaps and derivatives, international equity and debt offerings, US private placements and listings, and mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures.

He has acted extensively for the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), was a principal author of ISDA’s master agreements and has appeared as an arbitrator and as expert witness in several high profile derivatives cases. He was formerly the founding partner of the US law practice at Allen & Overy LLP and senior partner in the firm’s global derivatives practice. Before joining Allen & Overy as a partner in 1994, he practiced for more than 15 years in the New York and London offices of the leading Wall Street firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

He currently serves as Founder and Chair Emeritus of The P.R.I.M.E. Finance Foundation in The Hague and is a member of the Foundation’s Panel of Recognised International Market Experts in Finance. He is also an Honorary Fellow and Member of Court at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he previously held an appointment as Visiting Professor.

Jeffrey, his projects and his legal teams have received numerous awards. He recently featured in the Legal 500’s inaugural International Arbitration Powerlist UK of leading arbitration practitioners, and he has topped the rankings for derivatives lawyers and drawn accolades from all leading law firm directories, including, among others, having been hailed as “Mr Derivatives” (Chambers) and “legendary” (Legal 500) and credited with having “written the law on derivatives” (Legal 500).

In 2017, Jeffrey was called as an Honorary Master of the Bench at the Honourable Society of Middle Temple, in 2019, he was awarded the American Bar Association International Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2020, he received the inaugural Lifetime Contributor – Private Practice Award at Law.com/Legal Week’s Legal Innovation Awards 2020 ceremony.

On the 23rd July 2021, Jeff was on the panel of presenters for a webinar the Federal Bar Association gave on the Private International Law Bodies and the Panel of Recognized International Market Experts (P.R.I.M.E.) in Finance.

Jeffrey was joint Head of Chambers from 2018 to April 2022.