Joyce Y. Xu is a Partner in the Firm’s Corporate Department and heads the Firm’s derivatives practice.  Her area of concentration is equity derivatives.

Ms. Xu has broad experience having advised financial institutions, corporate clients, hedge funds and private equity funds, such as Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JPMorgan, Sears, Seagate, China Medical, Radio Shack, KKR, J.C. Flowers, Blackstone and New Mountain, on the structuring, negotiation and documentation of equity derivative transactions including:

• OTC hedging and monetization transactions involving forwards, options, collars and total return swaps,
• issuer call spreads,
• registered stock borrow facilities,
• hedging transactions related to certain PIPES investments,
• structured financing transactions,
• structured issuer share repurchase transactions such as accelerated share repurchases and forward share repurchases, and
• registered hedging transactions such as issuer forwards with registered hedge. 

Ms. Xu is a frequent presenter on various equity derivative products and documentation of equity derivatives at conferences sponsored by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. and American Conference Institute.  Ms. Xu is the co-author of the book chapter Equity Derivatives: Selected US Legal Issues, Practical Derivatives, edited by Carolyn Boyle, Globe Law & Business, Globe Business Publishing Ltd. 2006, pp. 139-162.  Ms. Xu also authored the book chapter U.S. Corporate and Regulatory Aspects of Equity Derivatives, Equity Derivatives:  Documenting and Understanding Equity Derivative Products, Globe Law & Business, Globe Business Publishing Ltd. 2009, pp. 357-384, for which she received the Burton Award for Achievement in Legal Writing.  Ms. Xu was recognized in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2011 and Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2010 where “clients say she is ‘a pleasure to work with and knows the legal issues inside out, as well as possessing real zeal on our behalf.’”  Ms. Xu has also been recognized by IFLR 1000 as a leading lawyer in derivatives.

Ms. Xu joined the Firm in May 2007 and was elected partner in 2010.  She received her B.S. in chemical engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1997 and her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2000 where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.  Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Xu practiced law as a member of the equity derivatives group at a major New York City law firm.  Ms. Xu is a member of the New York State Bar Association.

Honors/Associations

•	Burton Award for Achievement in Legal Writing
•	Member of the ISDA Equity Derivatives Committee, the ISDA Accounting & Equity Working Group and the Derivatives and Structured Products Law Committee of the New York State Bar Association

Publications

•	The SEC Issues Interpretive Letter on Certain Hedging Transactions in Respect of Restricted or Control Securities
•	Reflections on Dodd-Frank: A Look Back and a Look Forward
•	SEC Proposes Readoption of Rules 13d-3 and 16a-1 Regarding Beneficial Ownership in Light of Dodd-Frank
•	The CFTC and the SEC Issue Interim Final Reporting Rules for "Pre-Enactment Unexpired" Swaps and Security-Based Swaps
•	U.S. Congress Nears Completion of Landmark Financial Services Reform Legislation
•	Short Sale Regulation Update: SEC Adopts "Alternative Uptick Rule"
•	SEC Proposes Amendments to Rule 10b-18 Safe Harbor for Issuer Share Repurchases
•	Treasury Department Outlines Reforms to U.S. Financial Supervision and Regulation
•	U.S. Corporate and Regulatory Aspects of Equity Derivatives, Equity Derivatives: Documenting and Understanding Equity Derivative Products, Globe Law & Business, Globe Business Publishing Ltd. 2009, pp. 357-384
•	Equity Derivatives: Selected US Legal Issues, co-authored, Practical Derivatives, edited by Carolyn Boyle, Globe Law & Business, Globe Business Publishing Ltd. 2006, pp. 139-162

Speaking Engagements

•	Joyce Xu Speaks at the Minorities in Corporate Law Panel at Harvard Law School December 2, 2011
•	Joyce Xu Speaks at Diversity Event at AXA Equitable November 17, 2011
•	Joyce Y. Xu Speaks at The Alumnae of Columbia Law School's "Women Serving Women" Program June 22, 2011
•	Lee Meyerson to Co-Chair and Joyce Xu to Speak at PLI's "Banking Law Institute 2010: The Future is Here" Program on December 8, 2010 in New York City November 11, 2010
•	Gary Horowitz and Joyce Xu Speak at Columbia Law’s Private Sector Career Symposium March 2, 2010

Admissions

•	New York 2002

Education

•	Columbia Law School, 2000 J.D. Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
•	Pennsylvania State University, 1997 B.S. University Scholars Program, Tau Beta Pi