MARK NEW
Assistant General Counsel, INTERNATIONAL SWAPS AND DERIVATIVES ASSOCIATION, INC. (ISDA)
Mark New is Assistant General Counsel at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. where he works primarily on credit derivatives documentation. In this role he has worked on a large number of ISDA projects, including the Big Bang and Small Bang protocols and the republishing of all credit derivatives documentation impacted by those protocols.
Mr. New coordinates a number of ISDA working groups relating to credit derivatives documentation, including indices and loan-only CDS, and he carries out ISDA's functions relating to meetings and decisions of the Americas Determinations Committee. In addition to credit derivatives, he leads ISDA’s work on US cleared swaps documentation and FATCA. He is also a regular speaker at ISDA conferences on credit derivatives, the ISDA Master Agreement and cleared swaps.
Prior to joining ISDA, Mr. New worked as a credit derivatives structurer and practiced as a solicitor in London.
Mr. New graduated with first class honours in law at Oxford University and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley where he took an LLM degree. He is a member of the New York Bar and a solicitor of England and Wales.