Conrad Bahlke

Biography

Conrad Bahlke is Counsel at the Charles Law Firm PLLC in New York City. He was previously Partner and Counsel at several prominent New York City-based international law firms and has held positions at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C., and the Chicago Board of Trade. Mr. Bahlke’s practice focuses on derivative transactions and related regulatory matters, including equity, credit, commodity, weather, digital asset, interest rate and currency derivatives, as well as debt and equity repurchase agreements, securities lending transactions and futures contracts.

Mr. Bahlke also advises on related financial services regulatory matters, including compliance with the requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act and related regulations and with the rapidly changing regulatory landscape for digital asset-related products. He represents clients before Federal and state banking and commodities regulatory agencies, self-regulatory organizations, exchanges and clearinghouses in regulatory audit, registration, risk management, acquisitions and compliance matters. He has also advised on litigation and mediated disputes related to derivatives and has represented clients on derivatives matters through numerous financial crises and bankruptcies, including those of Enron and Lehman Brothers.

Mr. Bahlke has been listed as a prominent practitioner in his fields in the Chambers USA, Chambers Global, Legal 500 and Super Lawyers directories. He works with clients on the application of derivatives technologies in the public interest and received the National Public Service Award of the American Bar Association (ABA)’s Business Law Section for pro bono work with the United Nations World Food Program on the world’s first humanitarian relief-related weather derivative transaction.

Mr. Bahlke speaks and writes widely on derivatives-related topics and is a lecturer on derivatives at the Boston University School of Law. He is a member of the ABA’s Committee on Futures and Derivative Instruments and New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Derivatives and Futures Regulation, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Digital Assets.

Mr. Bahlke received his A.B. from Oberlin College, and his J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. He is admitted to practice in New York and Massachusetts.