Gordon Peery is a Partner and Chairman of the Derivatives Practice Group in the Los Angeles office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Mr. Peery works as a financial services and Dodd Frank lawyer and also as a lecturer, author and leading authority worldwide in over-the-counter derivatives and futures.

Mr. Peery counsels clients in the investment management, real estate, energy, oil and gas, commodities, corporate and financial services industries. These clients include institutional investors such as the largest pensions in the world, global asset managers and fund complexes, 1940 Act funds and hedge funds, Fortune 500 companies, utilities, providers of oil, gas, natural gas and electricity, banks, foundations, endowments and educational institutions, real estate developers and REITs, as well as sovereign funds.

Mr. Peery is the sole author of The Post-Reform Guide to Derivatives and Futures (John Wiley & Sons 2012), winner of the 2012 International Book Awards in the category of Law. His book has been used as a textbook at Georgetown Law School, where Mr. Peery was a guest lecturer.

Mr. Peery has lectured throughout the U.S. and Canada, London, Frankfurt, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Brunei on effective ways to trade derivatives in the current regulatory environment.

Mr. Peery has written successful requests for no-action relief to regulators, has counselled staff of congressmen relating to the Dodd-Frank Act and has appeared before the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on several occasions to interface directly with the chairman and commissioners and advocate protective and practical solutions to some of the problems experienced in the 2008 market crises. As a principal central part of his practice, he advises clients on cross-border, international issues and derivatives. Mr. Peery has lived overseas and speaks Japanese.