Richard Potok

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Richard Potok is a leading lawyer in securities law, specialising in transnational collateral transactions.

He obtained a commerce/law degree from the University of New South Wales, where he shared the university medal for law and was a Rhodes Scholar. He has worked throughout Europe and the United States, establishing Potok & Co, a consulting firm in the area of law reform. Potok is best known for his work at the Hague Conference on Private International Law, where he was instrumental in the negotiation, drafting and passage of the Hague Securities Convention in December 2002.

Potok represented Australia in May 2005 and March 2006 at the first and second sessions respectively of the Committee of Government Experts convened by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) to negotiate a Preliminary Draft Convention on Substantive Rules Regarding Intermediated Securities.

He has worked with a number of merchant banks, including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co..

Potok heads the Native Title Representative Body Professional Development Project, an initiative of several Australian academic institutions aimed at furthering Indigenous Australian native title processes.

He has published in the area of conflict of laws and securities law, and is a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales and an Honorary Research Fellow at Monash University.