Scott L. Diamond

Scott L. Diamond is a capital markets lawyer with decades of experience in financial services and as lead attorney in regulatory matters, transactions and litigations. He co-leads the firm's Derivatives, Structured Products, and Secondary Markets team.

Scott Diamond is a former Head of Investment Banking - Legal for a large multinational bank and has a wealth of derivatives, securities and banking experience. That role included acting as chief legal officer for a major swap dealer and broker-dealer and deputy general counsel for banking products. Previously he was senior counsel at a major futures commission merchant and broker-dealer and his career started at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. He has been deeply involved in all aspects of the business, including transactional work, regulatory analysis and advocacy, litigation, internal investigations, examination defense, drafting of policies and procedures, complex project management and law department management. He holds a FINRA Series 24 license, which was required for a role as Chief Compliance Officer and was a member of the NFA’s Swap Dealer Advisory Committee.