Tao Van De Graaff

Experience

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  PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal

  Feb 2008 - Jun 2009

  Solicitor

  Providing legal advice as part of the Corporate and Commercial team to clients in the venture capital and early stage sectors, providing corporate secretarial advice and assisting with commercial transactions. Prior to admission, worked in the Commercial and Regulatory Litigation team as a Graduate, primarily for clients in the energy sector.

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  PricewaterhouseCoopers

  Jun 2009 - May 2012

  Legal Counsel

  Providing in-house legal advice to PwC Australia on its agreements with its largest clients, its role in transactions (eg. as investigating accountant) and regulatory compliance, including under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).

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  McCullough Robertson

  Jun 2012 - Dec 2012

  Lawyer

  Provision of commercial legal advice, primarily in relation to mergers and acquisitions in the resources sector.

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  CME Group

  Nov 2021 - now

  Regulatory legal counsel at CME Group Inc. (formerly through NEX Group plc), primarily focusing on the EBS, BrokerTec and market data businesses. Based in London 2013-2021 and Amsterdam from November 2021.As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group also offers optimization services through TriOptima, and trade processing and reconciliation services through Traiana.CME Group Inc.'s acquisition of NEX Group plc became effective on 2 November 2018.The businesses of NEX Group plc were formerly part of ICAP plc until the end of 2016, when ICAP's global hybrid voice broking business was sold to Tullett Prebon plc (now known as TP ICAP plc).ICAP's legal team was named as a finalist in the LegalWeek British Legal Awards 2016 in the Legal Department of the Year - Financial Services category: http://www.britishlegalawards.com/ehome/britishlegalawards/418658/ICAP's legal team was the winner of the 2014 Legal 500 In-House Award for Best Litigation Team: http://www.legal500.com/assets/pages/awards/uk/2014/2014-winners-inhouse_announced.html Show less

  • Senior Director Legal & Regulatory - EMEA

    May 2013 - now

  • Deputy Head of Amsterdam Office

    Nov 2021 - Aug 2024