Jackie Drohan, Partner

Jacqueline J. Drohan, Partner. Practice areas include commodities and investment advisory law and regulation, including derivatives transactions, domestic and offshore hedge fund formation and investment due diligence. She was a partner with Drohan & Drohan LLP from 1995 until that firm’s merger into Drohan Lee in 2007. Before entering legal practice, Ms. Drohan had an 11-year institutional trading career as a senior capital markets dealer for banks including First Chicago International and Deutsche Bank. Trading experience includes major spot and forward currencies, money market instruments, options and derivatives. Ms. Drohan has been a frequent speaker at financial industry and academic conferences, and has published articles on financial economics, federal civil procedure and commodities regulation.

Ms. Drohan graduated from Washington University at St. Louis in 1982. She earned a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Investments from Baruch College in 1986, and her Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School in 1990, where she held the position of Comments Editor with the Brooklyn Law Review.

Ms. Drohan is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and a former-rostered arbitrator for National Futures Association, a member of the Global Regulatory working group of ACI Financial Markets Association, and she served as President of ACI Financial Markets Association, USA for over five years. She is a former trustee of the Citizens Budget Commission for New York and serves on several corporate and advisory boards.  She serves on the Finance and Investment Committee for the New York State Bar, as well as Co-Chair of the New York State Bar Association Task Force on Digital Finance and Virtual Currencies and Chair of the Litigation/Amicus Committee for the LGBTQ Law Section. Ms. Drohan is admitted to practice law before the Courts of New York and Colorado, the United States Second, Seventh and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals, as well as the United States Supreme Court.

Direct: (212) 710-0019
Email: jdrohan@dlkny.com