• Course Director LLM Corporate Finance Law

• Legal Aspects of International Finance
• International Corporate Governance
• International Project Finance Law
• Investment Banking

• Structured Finance and Securitization
• International Project Finance
• Risk and Regulatory Reform

Biography

Joseph Tanega, BA (Princeton University), M.Phil (Oxford University) Social Anthropology, Juris Doctor (University of San Diego School of Law), is a qualified US lawyer, former investment banker with Nomura Securities and Kleinwort Benson Securities, former Director of Business Risk Consulting for Ernst & Young, London, where he was in charge of thought leadership for financial institutions and capital markets, and Deputy Attorney General to the Department of Social Services and Housing in Hawaii. He is the author of 15 books in the areas of risk management, finance, law and environmental management, and has provided legal and financial consulting in 16 countries for a wide range of public and private organisations, including major financial institutions in the UK, US and Europe, and the European Commission where he was the lead project finance consultant to the Russian Nuclear Ministry. He is currently Senior Legal Consultant, International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group, providing legal and financial advise on securitization laws in the US, Europe and Russia.

As Course Director of the LLM Corporate Finance Law, he is establishing links with academic and commercial institutions.  He teaches on the LLM Modules Legal Aspects of International Finance and International Corporate Law and Governance, and supervises Masters Projects and Dissertations in law and finance.  His current research interests and consulting include securitization, structured finance, and international project finance.  

Recent / select Publications

          and to be published in the NYU Journal of Law and Business, Spring Issue 07.

• Co-author with Mohammad Saad Lahlou on “Islamic Securitization Part II: A Proposal for International Standards, Legal Guidelines and Structures,” Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, Issue 7, June 2007.

• Co-author with Mohammad Saad Lahlou on “Islamic Securitization Part I: Accommodating the Disingenuous Narrative,“ Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, Issue 6, May 2007.

• Co-author with Mohammad Saad Lahlou on “Islamic Securitization: Accommodating the Disingenuous Narrative, Legal Guidelines and Structures,“ New York State Bar Association, March 2007.

• Author of “Sarbanes Oxley Litigation: On Legal Risk, Potential Liability and Employee Protection, Chapter 7 of International and European Financial Crime, edited by I. Bantekas, LexisNexis Butterworths, 2006.

• Co-author with Kirill Glukovshy on “CDOs Under Siege Part II: IAS Derecognition and Basel II”, Journal of International Banking Law and Regulations, Issue 12, Dec. 2006.

• Co-author with Kirill Glukovshy on “CDOs Under Siege Part I: Compliance Under The IAS and Basel II,” Journal of International Banking Law and Regulations, Issue 11, Nov. 2006.

• Co-author with Dmitry Gololobov on “Sham SPEs, Part I: The Legal Issues of International Accounting Standards on the Consolidation of Special Purpose Entities,” International Company and Commercial Law Review, Vol. 17, Issue 12, Dec. 2006.

• Co-author with Dmitry Gololobov on “Sham SPEs, Part II: The Regulatory Gaps of International Accounting Standards Concerning the Consolidation of Special Purpose Entities,” International Company and Commercial Law Review, Vol. 17, Issue 11, Nov. 2006.

• Co-author with Beat Speck of “Private Equity Placements, Comparing the Laws in Switzerland, the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States of America Part II,” Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, Vol. 21, Issue 5, May 2006.

• Co-author with Beat Speck of “Private Equity Placements, Comparing the Laws in Switzerland, the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States of America Part I,” Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, Volume 21, Issue 4, pp. 213-226, April 2006.

• Author of “Securitisation Disclosures under Basel II: Part II-Applications of the Risk Symmetry principle to Economic Substance over Legal Form,” Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, Vol 21, Issue, 1, pp. 1-11, January 2006.

• Author of “Securitisation Disclosures and Compliance under Basel II Part I: A risk-based Approach to Economic Substance over Legal Form,” Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, Vol 20, Issue 12, pp.  617-632, December 2005.

• Co-author of “UK and Swiss Corporate Governance: Comparing the Role of Independent Non-Executive Directors,” International Company and Commercial Law Review, Vol 16, Issue 12, pp. 468-478, December 2005.

• Author of “Basel II:  Principles of Avoiding Regulatory Failure” Chapter 2 in Governance and Risk in the Emerging and Global Markets, edited by Sima Motamen-Samadien, Palgrave, 2005.

• Author of “Sarbanes-Oxley: Employee Liability and Protection,” International Company and Commercial Law Review, Vol 16, Issue 5,  pp. 204-209, May 2005.

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