Adam Fovent advises clients at the intersection of financial regulatory, trading and markets, and financial technology developments, with a particular focus on derivatives and digital asset related matters. Mr. Fovent’s clients include US and international financial institutions, fintech and digital asset startups, funds and fund managers, and other end-user trading market participants.
Mr. Fovent’s financial regulatory experience includes particular expertise with respect to the Commodity Exchange Act and the regulations of the CFTC, including the regulation of swap dealers, swap execution facilities, commodity pool operators, commodity trading advisers, and introducing brokers. Mr. Fovent also has securities, bank, and money transmission regulatory experience.
In the derivatives space, Mr. Fovent has experience representing financial institution, fund, and corporate end-user clients in the negotiation of over-the-counter derivatives trading documentation, including with respect to FX, commodity, interest rate, and digital asset derivative transactions.
In the digital asset space, Mr. Fovent has experience representing centralized exchanges, decentralized finance protocols, and investors on US regulatory risk and also regularly assists clients in the negotiation of a wide variety of institutional digital asset custody and trading agreements.
Mr. Fovent regularly works with deal and litigation/enforcement team colleagues to provide specialist input on matters involving a financial regulatory, derivatives, fintech, or digital asset component.
Prior to joining Latham, Mr. Fovent was an associate in the financial institutions group of another leading New York law firm. He also previously served as tipstaff and researcher (judicial clerk) to the Hon. Justice M J Beazley AC KC, then President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal in Australia.