Overview
Ryan Hayden advises financial institutions, commodity market participants, financial service providers, and recent market entrants on a range of regulatory and transactional matters, including legal and compliance requirements related to derivatives. He counsels clients on the Commodity Exchange Act and the Dodd-Frank Act, including Title VII and swaps and security-based swaps. Ryan frequently engages with US financial regulators in advocacy efforts on behalf of clients, ranging from registration and seeking relief to advising on enforcement matters. His Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) enforcement work has included trade reporting, documentation, recordkeeping, surveillance, compliance and supervisory programs, business conduct standards, manipulation, and other rule areas and requirements.
Clients rely on Ryan’s comprehensive understanding of legal and regulatory issues and seek his practical, accessible legal advice borne from holding senior-level in-house legal and compliance positions and experience working across asset classes. Prior to joining Steptoe, Ryan worked as in-house counsel to two international commodity market participants and a global financial institution, also serving as Chief Compliance Officer to U.S. and non-U.S. CFTC registrants. While in-house, Ryan’s practice focused on derivatives, securities, and banking regulatory and transactional advice, often counseling new businesses and trading ventures and advising on compliant business structuring and strategy.
Ryan is a frequent speaker on financial regulatory matters at industry trade group events. Ryan also serves as Co-Chair of the Derivatives Subcommittee of the D.C. Bar Corporation, Finance, and Securities Law Community. He began his financial services career at the CFTC in Commissioner Bart Chilton’s office and at the US Senate Banking Committee.
- District of Columbia
- Illinois
- Maryland
- J.D., American University, Washington College of Law, 2013, Vice President, Student Bar Association
- B.S., University of Mary Washington, 2009, cum laude, Business Administration and English
News & Publications
StepTechToe
March 27, 2024
By: Tod Cohen, Stacie R. Hartman, Andrew Golodny, Ryan Hayden, Elizabeth Goodwin, Vito Arethusa
Press Releases
February 22, 2024
Client Alerts
January 11, 2024
Client Alerts
November 30, 2023
By: Ryan Hayden, Stacie R. Hartman, Micah S. Green, Coy Garrison, Richard Shilts
Previous Employment
- Senior Lawyer, Cargill, Incorporated (2021-2022)
- Senior Legal Counsel/Chief Compliance Officer, E D & F Man Capital Markets (2018-2021)
- Legal Counsel, Vice President, Northern Trust Corporation (2014-2018)
- Majority Staff, US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs (2013)
- Legal and Policy Intern for Commissioner Bart Chilton, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (2012-2013)