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Peter Y. Malyshev is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Washington, D.C. office. Peter is a member of the Firm’s Energy and Derivatives Markets Practice Group, where he focuses his practice on transactional and regulatory issues related to commodities and financial and derivates products related to energy trading.
Peter regularly advises on and assists in structuring risk management and hedging transactions with financial institutions, energy traders, as well as other end-users and dealers such as airlines, emission and ethanol producers and insurance companies. Peter’s practice also includes assistance with compliance under the Commodity Exchange Act and the CFTC regulations with respect to complex derivatives and commodities trades OTC and on various trading facilities. Peter has negotiated numerous master agreements, energy purchase and sale agreements and energy optimization and management agreements. He also advises concerning credit arrangements in connection with asset acquisitions and has supervised several energy portfolio acquisitions. As part of firm’s commodities practice, Peter assists in obtaining exceptions or registrations under CFTC regulations for futures commission merchants, commodity pool operators and commodity trading advisors and assists U.S. clients with foreign commodities regulation compliance (e.g., in the U.K., Canada or Dubai, UAE). Peter is a frequent speaker at industry conferences where he recently addressed such topics as efficient clearing of OTC energy derivatives on commodities exchanges, the use of master agreements in energy trading and transacting derivatives business with counterparties currently in bankruptcy.
Prior to joining the Firm, Peter was a lawyer at the CFTC’s Division of Economic Analysis, where he focused on exempt energy derivatives markets and interpretations of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. Before the CFTC, Peter was in private practice with an international U.S. law firm in its Moscow, London and San Francisco offices, advising multinational banks and investment funds regarding U.S., U.K. and international derivatives, investment management, banking and securities matters and financing and securitization issues, including issues related to the internet. His experience also includes an internship at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, as well as work on behalf of Harvard University at the Federal Commission on Securities Markets in Moscow, Russia, where he participated in drafting Russian securities legislation and advised the Central Bank of Russia on derivatives and custody issues.
Peter studied Japanese history and economics at the College of Asian and African Studies at Moscow State University in Russia. Peter completed the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test course at the College of Law, Chancery Lane in London, England. A registered securities broker in the United States and Russia, Peter is admitted in the District of Columbia, California, England and Wales and before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
Peter is fluent in both English and Russian and has working knowledge of Arabic, and conversational skills in Japanese and German.
Education:
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, J.D., 1996
Georgetown University Law Center, LL.M., 2002
California State University - Sacramento, M.A., 1992 | 