Joyce Y. Xu is a Partner in the Firm’s Corporate Department.  Her area of concentration is equity derivatives.

Ms. Xu has broad experience in advising financial institutions, corporate clients, hedge funds and private equity funds, such as Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JPMorgan, Sears, Seagate, China Medical, Radio Shack, KKR, J.C. Flowers, Blackstone and New Mountain, on the structuring, negotiation and documentation of equity derivative transactions including:

• OTC hedging and monetization transactions involving forwards, options, collars and total return swaps,
• issuer call spreads,
• registered stock borrow facilities,
• hedging transactions related to certain PIPES investments,
• structured financing transactions,
• structured issuer share repurchase transactions such as accelerated share repurchases and forward share repurchases, and
• registered hedging transactions such as issuer forwards with registered hedge. 

Ms. Xu is a frequent presenter on various equity derivative products and documentation of equity derivatives at conferences sponsored by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. and American Conference Institute.  Ms. Xu is the co-author of the book chapter Equity Derivatives: Selected US Legal Issues, Practical Derivatives, edited by Carolyn Boyle, Globe Law & Business, Globe Business Publishing Ltd. 2006, pp. 139-162.  Ms. Xu also authored the book chapter U.S. Corporate and Regulatory Aspects of Equity Derivatives, Equity Derivatives:  Documenting and Understanding Equity Derivative Products, Globe Law & Business, Globe Business Publishing Ltd. 2009, pp. 357-384, for which she received the Burton Award for Achievement in Legal Writing.

Ms. Xu joined the Firm in May 2007 and was elected partner in 2010.  She received her B.S. in chemical engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 1997 and her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2000 where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.  Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Xu practiced law as a member of the equity derivatives group at a major New York City law firm.  Ms. Xu is a member of the New York State Bar Association.

Honors/Associations

•	Burton Award for Achievement in Legal Writing
•	Member of the ISDA Equity Derivatives Committee, the ISDA Accounting & Equity Working Group and the Derivatives and Structured Products Law Committee of the New York State Bar Association

Publications

•	U.S. Congress Nears Completion of Landmark Financial Services Reform Legislation
•	Short Sale Regulation Update: SEC Adopts "Alternative Uptick Rule"
•	SEC Proposes Amendments to Rule 10b-18 Safe Harbor for Issuer Share Repurchases
•	Treasury Department Outlines Reforms to U.S. Financial Supervision and Regulation
•	U.S. Corporate and Regulatory Aspects of Equity Derivatives, Equity Derivatives: Documenting and Understanding Equity Derivative Products, Globe Law & Business, Globe Business Publishing Ltd. 2009, pp. 357-384
•	Equity Derivatives: Selected US Legal Issues, co-authored, Practical Derivatives, edited by Carolyn Boyle, Globe Law & Business, Globe Business Publishing Ltd. 2006, pp. 139-162

Speaking Engagements

•	Gary Horowitz and Joyce Xu Speak at Columbia Law’s Private Sector Career Symposium March 2, 2010
•	Simpson Thacher Hosts and Roxane Reardon and Joyce Xu Speak at November Meeting of New York State Bar Association’s Derivatives & Structured Products Law Committee November 20, 2009
•	Joyce Xu To Speak at ISDA Equity Derivatives Conference October 26, 2009
•	Catherine Wang Speaks on “U.S. Regulatory Update on OTC Derivatives” at the 11th OYCF Annual Meeting June 3, 2009
•	Joyce Xu Speaks at the ISDA 24th Annual General Meeting April 27, 2009
•	Joyce Xu Speaks at ISDA Equity Derivatives Conference March 4, 2009
•	Corporate Counsel Joyce Xu to Speak at ISDA Conference October 8, 2008
•	Joyce Xu Speaks at ACI Conference April 4, 2008
•	Firm Counsel Joyce Xu Speaks at ISDA Conference February 22, 2008

Admissions

•	New York 2002

Education

•	Columbia Law School, 2000 J.D. Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
•	Pennsylvania State University, 1997 B.S. University Scholars Program, Tau Beta Pi