Ronald H. Filler is a former Professor of Law and a Director of the Financial Services Law Institute at New York Law SchooL (“NYLS”), located in New York City. He became a Professor Emeritus at NYLS in January 2020. In March 2021, he was named Chair of the newly-named Ronald H. Filler Institute on Financisl Services Law at NYLS. He was a Visiting Professor of Law at the College of Law at the Univertsity of Illinois for the Fall 2023 semester and will again teach there in the Fall 2024 semester. In 2025, he will be a Visiting Professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law. He has taught several courses involving the financial services industry at four different U.S, law schools over the past 45+ years including, among others, Securities Regulation, Derivatives Regulation and the Regulation of Broker-Dealers and Futures Commission Merchants.
Prior to joining the faculty of NYLS in 2008, he was a Managing Director in the Capital Markets Prime Services Division at Lehman Brothers Inc., where he was responsible for various business, legal and regulatory matters involving the global futures markets. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers in 1993, he was a Partner and Member of the Executive Committee at Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, a large law firm located in Chicago, IL and worked at various other law firms and brokerage firms earlier in his career. He is currently a member of, or has served on, numerous industry boards and advisory committees, including serving on the Executive Cmmittee of the Futures Industry Association (“FIA”) Law & Compliance Division for the past 40+ years.
In March 2022, he was inducted into the FIA Hall of Fame. He is currently a Member of the Board of Directors and a past member of the Executive Committee of the National Futures Association (“NFA”) where he serves as a Public Director and has served, or currently serves, on several NFA Committees; is currently a Public Representative on the Board of Director of ABAXX Clearing, a clearinghouse located in Singapore and is the Chair of its Regulatory Oversight Conflicts Committee; and is a former Public Director of the Board of Directors, and Chair of the Nominating Committee and of the Regulatory Oversight Committee, of Swap-Ex, a swap execution facility owned by State Street.
Ron has also previously served as the Past Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (“CFTC”) Global Markets Advisory Committee, as a Public Director and Member of the Regulatory Oversight Committee of NYSE Liffe US, before its purchase by the International Commodity Exchange (“ICE”), and has served as a Senior Consultant to Allen & Overy, a major international law firm. Ron has been a member of several U.S. futures exchanges during his career and has spoken at over 300 business and law programs during his 45+ year career in the global futures and securities industries. Ron is a co-author of a law treatise on “Regulation of Financial Derivative Instruments (Swaps, Options and Futures)” and has written extensively on a variety of issues facing the financial services, derivatives and securities industries throughout his career.
He has recently served as President of the Twin Eagles Club, a golf and country club located in Naples, FL. He is also the President of a firm that provides consulting and expert witness testimony regarding a variety of financial services related matters. You can reach Prof. Filler via his email at rfiller48@gmail.com or via his cell at (973) 495-8609.
He received a B.A. degree from the University of Illinois in 1970, a J.D. degree from George Washington University Law School in 1973 and an LL.M. in Taxation degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1975.
