Associé

Danielle B. Abada

Derivatives, Banking & Finance, Fintech

New York +1 212 506 2441

DAbada@mayerbrown.com

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Danielle Abada is a partner in Mayer Brown’s Capital Markets group in New York and a member of the Derivatives & Structured Products and Fintech practices. She counsels financial institutions and fintechs on a broad range of regulatory, compliance, transactional, and legislative matters. Danielle supports clients in navigating the regulatory landscape for derivatives and in understanding and addressing market, product, and legal developments.

Danielle served as Senior Special Counsel in the Market Participants Division of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and previously served as Senior Counsel to CFTC Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson. She was also the designated federal officer for the Market Risk Advisory Committee. During her time at the CFTC, Danielle advised on complex legal, regulatory, and policy matters affecting CFTC-regulated entities and advanced the Commission’s priorities on regulatory and market developments, including crypto assets and blockchain technologies, prediction markets and event contracts, and artificial intelligence.

Danielle advises a wide array of clients, from early stage venture-backed companies to established global financial institutions, on the use of emerging and evolving technologies, including distributed ledgers, digital assets, and artificial intelligence. She also counsels clients on the development of payments systems, settlement, clearing, and other financial technology businesses. Danielle has represented banks, swap dealers, broker-dealers, exchanges, asset and investment managers, hedge funds and proprietary trading firms in a wide variety of banking, derivatives and securities regulatory and transactional matters. She has represented corporate clients and industry associations before various regulatory agencies, such as the prudential banking regulators, the CFTC, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the New York Department of Financial Services. Danielle has also supported clients in negotiating and documenting ISDA agreements and advising on disclosure matters for CFTC and SEC registrants. Prior to joining Mayer Brown and the CFTC, Danielle was associated with another international law firm.

Danielle has developed and presented programs on fintech and artificial intelligence topics and has contributed to industry initiatives and thought leadership on derivatives and fintech topics.

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  Former CFTC Senior Counsel Danielle Abada joins Mayer Brown
  octobre 12 2026

Formation

Yale Law School, JD
Yale School of Management, MBA
Cornell University, BA

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New York

Engagement professionnel et communautaire

Member, New York City Bar Association, Futures & Derivatives Committee and Commercial Law & Uniform State Laws Committee
Member, American Bar Association, Business Law Section
- Previous Electronic Financial Services & Digital Currency Subcommittee Young Lawyer Liaison
Member, Women in Financial Markets
Past Participant, Future Leaders in Derivatives Program, International Swaps and Derivatives Association
Vice Chair, UJA Federation of New York, Young Lawyers Leadership Division