Lecturer Bio
Jack Chen, Esq.
Jack is a consultant with expertise in the capital markets, corporate securities, structured finance, asset backed securities, ratings, real estate investments and derivatives. He currently provides advisory and consultancy services and has testified as an expert witness in federal court in a case involving ratings and complex financial products. He is a recognized expert in structured finance where he has over 15 years' of experience. His product expertise includes derivatives such as credit default swaps, interest rate derivatives and total return swaps, cash and synthetic collateralized debt obligations, collateralized loan obligations, derivative product companies and structured investment vehicles.
Jack began his career as an associate at the white shoe law firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher and then joined the prestigious law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell with a practice in corporate law, securities and a concentration in structured finance. He left law to rate derivatives and structured products at Moody's Investors Service and then served as the Chief Operating Officer of HillMark Capital and then of Centerline Financial before founding his own consulting firm, Pronetik, providing litigation support, serving as an expert witness and supervising quantitative analyses. Jack has appeared on the CBS Evening News and was featured as an expert on 3-part documentary titled “Age of Gold” for the “Docu-Prime” series of South Korean television network EBS. He has also been quoted or cited in a number of newspapers and trade journals, including Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Bloomberg News, Market Watch News Hub, Risk, Creditflux, St. Petersburg Times, Asset-Backed Alert and Structured Credit Investor.
Jack received his undergraduate degree from Columbia College, Columbia University and his legal degree with honors from Fordham University School of Law where he was Senior Articles Editors of the Fordham Law Review.
