<p>Robert P. Bramnik represents clients in a broad range of financial services areas in the securities, futures and derivatives markets, including strategic business planning, participation in new markets, design and implementation of trading and investment products and strategies, and in related litigation. He also represents professionals in the securities and futures industries in connection with a variety of regulatory and compliance matters.
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Mr. Bramnik is a member of the American and Illinois State bar associations and The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is a fellow of the Illinois Bar Foundation and chairman of the Subcommittee on Futures Commission Merchants of the ABA's Committee on Regulation of Futures and Derivatives. In addition, he is a member of the Legal and Compliance Division of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and has served as an arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. and for the National Futures Association. He is a member of the Probable Cause and Business Conduct Committees of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a member of the Hearing Board of the National Futures Association and a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Investment Compliance.
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Mr. Bramnik has spoken on financial services-related issues for the Securities Industry Association and the American Bar Association. During 2009 and 2010, he spoke on litigation and enforcement matters, and during 2008, he spoke on the topic of new regulatory developments in the private funds area at the Winter Meeting of the American Bar Association's Committee on the Regulation of Futures and Derivatives Instruments. He also chaired and spoke on best practices for hedge funds and their sponsors at a number of conferences for the managed funds industry. He presented an article at the Winter Meeting of the American Bar Association (2003) on the issue of Clearing Firm Liability and at the Legal & Compliance Seminar of the Securities Industry Association regarding Continuing Education in the Securities Industry. He served as chairman of the Illinois Advisory Committee on Commodity Regulation throughout most of its tenure and was the author of related amendments to the Illinois Securities Law