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Edward F. Greene is currently the General Counsel of Citi Markets & Banking. He was previously a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, resident in the London office from 1990 to 2004, when he joined Citi.
Mr. Greene was also resident in the Washington offices of Cleary Gottlieb from 1982 to 1987 and in Tokyo from 1987-1990. He was the first licensed foreign lawyer to be admitted to practice law in Japan in 1987. Prior to joining Cleary Gottlieb in 1983, he was General Counsel of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, from 1981-1982, and Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, from 1979-1981. Prior to joining the Securities and Exchange Commission he was engaged in private practice in New York.
Mr. Greene is a Trustee of the Practicing Law Institute, the SEC Historical Society and The Lawyers Alliance, a member of the Financial Markets Law Committee of the Bank of England, current Chairman of the Annual Securities Regulation Institute sponsored by Northwestern University, Co-Chairman of the Annual Securities Regulation in Europe program sponsored by Practicing Law Institute, a member of the NASD’s Legal and Compliance Committee and a member of the advisory and editorial boards of several legal education publications and institutes. He has written extensively on securities law issues and is a co-author of U.S. Regulation of the International and Derivatives Markets, published by Aspen and currently in its Seventh Edition. Mr. Greene has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University Law Center, was appointed to the Nomura Chair of International Securities Regulation by the law faculty of the University of Tokyo for the 1989-1990 academic year, and was appointed Lecturer at the Harvard Law School for the 2003 spring term. He was also Chairman of the Legal Advisory Board of New York Stock Exchange, from 1995 until 2001, continuing as a member ex officio and was a member of the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Capital Formation and Regulatory Processes. He was a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council from 1986 to 1987.
Mr. Greene received an LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School in 1966 and an undergraduate degree from Amherst College in 1963. He is a member of the New York Bar. | 