Susan Ervin is a partner in Davis Polk’s Financial Institutions Group, practicing in the Washington DC office. She has a unique combination of direct CFTC and SEC regulatory and private practice experience in futures, commodities and derivatives, including the new swaps regulatory requirements. Ms. Ervin advises clients concerning the full spectrum of derivatives and other alternative investment products.
Ms. Ervin spent 15 years as an attorney for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the last 10 of which she served in a senior capacity as Deputy Director and Chief Counsel of the CFTC’s Division of Trading and Markets. In that capacity, Ms. Ervin was responsible for the legal aspects of the CFTC’s regulatory programs for exchanges, clearing organizations, futures commission merchants, commodity pool operators, commodity trading advisers and other intermediaries. She left the CFTC at the end of 1997 to reenter private practice, where she also advised on derivatives matters and transactions, including the derivatives activities of investment companies. In 2009, she returned to the public sector as an Attorney Fellow/Senior Advisor at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where she helped develop regulatory approaches to the derivatives markets.
susan.ervin@davispolk.com
