John Currie
Partner
Telephone: + 61 2 9947 6333
john_currie@hdy.com.au

Practice Area

• Banking & Finance
• Climate Change
• Financial Markets & Derivatives

John Currie

John's expertise is in financial markets and derivatives regulation and he has over 20 years' experience in these areas, acting for exchanges, banks, brokers and overseas participants.

John has worked on some of the most substantial and ground-breaking matters in these areas, including the establishment of a new futures market for Australia, obtaining regulatory approval for the Australian operations of one of the world's major futures exchanges, and providing the Australian opinion on master netting agreements to the European Futures Industry Association and its members.

John has also assisted some of Australia's major financial institutions with licensing documentation and approvals under the FSR regime.

John is a past member of the Derivatives Panel of the Australian Government's Companies and Securities Advisory Committee and has for the past six years been a part-time lecturer in Law at the University of Sydney, where he leads the LLM program in Regulation of Derivatives Products and Markets.

He is the author of the leading text Australian Futures Regulation which is widely used in industry and academic circles in Australia and the region and is listed as a "Recommended Individual" in the 2007 edition of PLC Which Lawyer? for Banking: lenders and borrowers.

John is also the Legal Counsel for the Australian branch of the Alternative Investment Management Association, and he chairs the Regulatory Committee of AIMA Australia.