Richard Potok is a leading lawyer in securities law, specialising in transnational collateral transactions. He obtained a commerce/law degree from the University of New South Wales, where he shared the university medal for law and was a Rhodes Scholar. He has worked throughout Europe and the United States, establishing Potok & Co, a consulting firm in the area of law reform. Potok is best known for his work at the Hague Conference on Private International Law, where he was instrumental in the negotiation, drafting and passage of the Hague Securities Convention in December 2002. He has worked with a number of merchant banks, including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., and is now a representative of the Australian Attorney General at the UNIDROIT initiative. Potok also heads the Native Title Representative Body Professional Development Project, an initiative of several Australian academic institutions aimed at furthering Indigenous Australian native title processes. He has published in the area of conflict of laws and securities law, and is a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales and an Honorary Research Fellow at Monash University.
