American Conference Institute's 5th National Forum on

Energy Trading Compliance & Regulatory Enforcement

Achieving Compliance, Avoiding Investigation and Managing Regulatory Actions in an Era of Heightened Scrutiny

Thursday, November 17 to Friday, November 18, 2011
The Washington Marriott, Washington, DC

Robert S. Fleishman
Of Counsel
Covington & Burling LLP (Washington, DC)

Charles Cerria
Associate General Counsel – Trading
Hess Corporation (New York, NY)

Charles Cerria
Associate General Counsel – Trading
Hess Corporation (New York, NY)

Catherine E. Napolitano
Director & Assistant General Counsel Bank of America
Merrill Lynch (New York, NY)

Alexandra Guest
Director - Global Markets Compliance
Barclays Capital Inc. (New York, NY)

Elliot Cohen
Associate General Counsel
Russell Investments (Seattle, WA)

Jeffrey Nichols
Partner
Haynes and Boone, LLP (Houston, TX)

Alan Sobba
Chief Policy and Communications Officer
International Derivatives Clearing Group LLC (New York, NY)

Panel Leader and Moderator:
Allison Lurton
Of Counsel
Covington & Burling LLP (Washington, DC)
(former senior counsel at the CFTC)

Dan M. Berkovitz
General Counsel
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

Lauren Rosenblatt
Chief, Branch 5
Division of Investigations, Office of Enforcement
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Robert Ivanauskas
Policy Advisor to Commissioner Moeller
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

James F. Mongoven
Deputy Assistant Director, Bureau of Competition
Federal Trade Commission

Robertson Park

Assistant Chief, Fraud Section, Criminal Division
United States Department of Justice

Jeff Lam
Chief Compliance Officer
Powerex Corp. (British Columbia, Canada)

Vincent Duane
Vice President & General Counsel
PJM Interconnection (Norristown, PA)

Panel Leader and Moderator:
William L. Massey
Partner
Covington & Burling LLP (Washington, DC)

Kelly Funderburk
Director, Commodities Counsel
Merrill Lynch Commodities, Inc (Houston, TX)

Lopa Parikh
Director, Federal Regulatory Affairs for Energy Supply
Edison Electric Institute (Washington, DC)

Bob Anderson
Executive Director
Committee of Chief Risk Officers (The Woodlands, TX)

Robert S. Fleishman
Of Counsel
Covington & Burling LLP (Washington, DC)
(formerly of the Enforcement Division of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Matthew Picardi
Vice President-Regulatory Affairs
Shell Energy North America (U.S.), L.P. (Albany, NY)

Thane T. Twiggs
Compliance Officer
Citigroup Energy Inc. (Houston, TX)

David Louw
Head of Compliance
Macquarie Energy (Houston, TX)

Mark N. Rae
Partner
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP (New York, NY)

Peter Y. Malyshev

Of Counsel
Winston & Strawn LLP (Washington, DC)
(former lawyer at the CFTC’s Division of Economic Analysis)

James C. Allison
Regional Risk Manager Natural Gas and Power, North America Conoco
Phillips Company (Houston, TX)

Ronald Oppenheimer
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Vitol, Inc. (Houston, TX)

Sebastian Tiger
Director, General Counsel Division
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (New York, NY)

Victoria T. Sharp
Managing Director
Citigroup Energy Inc. (Houston, TX)

Tom LaSala
Managing Director and Chief Regulatory Officer
CME Group Inc. (Chicago, IL)

Paul J. Pantano, Jr
.
Partner
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP (Washington, DC)
(former trial attorney in the Division of Enforcement of the CFTC)

Craig Glazer
Vice President - Federal Government Policy
PJM Interconnection (Washington, DC)

Joe White Manager,
Intrastate Regulatory Affairs
Enbridge Energy Company, Inc. (Houston, TX)

Regina Y. Speed-Bost
Partner
Schiff Hardin LLP (Washington, DC)
(former advisory attorney in the FERC’s Office of General Counsel)

Sean A. Atkins
Partner
Alston & Bird LLP (Washington, DC)

Vincenzo Franco
Member
Van Ness Feldman, P.C. (Washington, DC)

Matthew D. McVee
PartnerT
routman Sanders LLP (Portland, OR)

Sheila Slocum Hollis

Partner
Duane Morris LLP (Washington, DC)
(the first director of the Office of Enforcement of FERC)

Michael Loesch
Sr. Counsel
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. (Washington, DC)
(former Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

Michael Lloyd Spafford
Partner
Bingham McCutchen LLP (Washington, DC)

Kevin J. Lipson
Partner
Hogan Lovells (Washington, DC)

Martin Ramirez
Managing Director
SGE COMPLIANCE (Stamford, CT)  

Bray Dohrwardt
Vice President, Head of Upstream Legal, Government & Regulatory Affairs
Direct Energy (Houston, TX)

Gary Barnett
Partner
Linklaters (New York, NY)

Ronald H. Filler
Professor of Law
Director, Center on Financial Services LawNew York Law School
(former Managing Director in the Capital Markets Prime Services Division at Lehman Brothers)

George D. Billinson
Of Counsel
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (Washington, DC)
(former attorney-adviser with the Enforcement Division of FERC’s Office of Market Oversight and Investigations)

Sandy Rizzo
Partner
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP (Washington, DC)

David L. Schwartz
Partner
Latham & Watkins LLP (Washington, DC)

James E. “Jim” Bowers
Senior Counsel
Day Pitney LLP (Hartford, CT)

no faculty list message