Donald Horwitz

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Donald L. Horwitz
Occupation	Managing director and general counsel
Employer	OneChicago
Web site	http://www.onechicago.com/

Donald L. Horwitz^[1] is managing director and general counsel of OneChicago. He has spent his career as a legal advisor on the brokerage, exchange, clearinghouse and regulatory sides of the financial arena.

Background

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Horwitz in 1974 began his career in the financial services industry with the Securities and Exchange Commission's New York regional office. He joined the legal department of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., ultimately becoming general counsel of Merrill Lynch Futures, Inc.^[2]

In 1988 Horwitz became general counsel at The Options Clearing Corporation and in 1997 became general counsel at Sakura Dellsher, Inc., a futures commission merchant. He also headed compliance for BrokerTec Futures Exchange and then of Eurex US, as a result of the merger of BrokerTec into Eurex US.

Most recently, he was director/general counsel for Global Futures at ABN AMRO^[3] and joined UBS AG as executive director and senior counsel for exchange-traded derivatives in their Chicago office as a result of UBS’s purchase of ABN AMRO’s global futures business in October 2006.

Affiliations

Horwitz has been actively involved in policy making for the industry through appointments as president of the FIA Law and Compliance Division, chairman of the Chicago Bar Association Derivatives Regulation Committee, editor of the Futures and Derivatives Law Reporter, chairman of the NFA's FCM Advisory Committee, member of the Derivatives Regulation Committee of the Association of Bar of the City of New York, and other industry and professional organizations. He is a member of the Illinois, Michigan and New York state bars.