Harry Jho

Harry Jho is a Partner at Harry Jho LLC. Since 2001, Mr. Jho has worked for leading buy and sell side firms in the area of securities finance and trading. For the sell side, Mr. Jho has advised major prime brokers in structuring their product platforms and drafted the form of prime brokerage agreement most commonly used by the leading primes. Mr. Jho has advised also major dealers on matters relating to termination and credit loss.  For the buy side, Mr. Jho has helped several leading hedge funds implement their documentation strategy with respect to ISDAs, Prime Brokerage, Securities Lending, Repo and Master Confirmation Agreements. For the industry, Mr. Jho advises ISDA on equity derivatives matters. He has advised ISDA on various US and European Master Confirmation Agreements, the 2011 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions, and the Equity Matrices.

During the course of his career, Mr. Jho has helped to define the negotiation posture taken by both hedge funds and banks with respect to many of the key aspects of their prime brokerage and term financing relationships. At Bank of America, Mr. Jho was the lead attorney responsible for Equity Finance transactions (covering Prime Brokerage and Equity Financing Derivatives) and oversaw the Bank's implementation of its Arranged Finance, Fixed Income PB and Portfolio Margining platforms. In 2006, Mr. Jho was awarded special commendations from both the Legal and Credit Risk departments of Bank of America for handling the bank's response to the Amaranth crisis. Mr. Jho is a frequent speaker on topics relating to derivatives and prime brokerage.

Mr. Jho holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, with Highest Distinction, from the University of Michigan. He was formerly associated with Davis Polk & Wardwell and was a Principal and Assistant General Counsel at Bank of America.  Mr. Jho is the author of An Index of ISDA Terms, published in 2007 by ISDA. Mr. Jho is also a member of the bar of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, having argued several appeals before that court.