Jacek Kubas
Principal at the London office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Jacek Kubas is a Principal at the London office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, in the EBRD’s Local Currency and Capital Markets Team (LC2). Jacek specialises in covered bonds, securitisation, derivatives and market infrastructure. Jacek’s work focuses on reform efforts, including legal and regulatory, and transaction design and support in EBRD’s countries of operations: CIS (including Central Asia), Turkey and North Africa. Jacek is a co-chair of the Russian Regulatory Working Group established by ISDA. During his time at EBRD, Jacek has also worked as an Adviser to the President of EBRD with a strong focus on a strategy and business development. Jacek worked on derivatives reforms in Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Russia and Morocco; completed a covered bond legal and regulatory reform in Poland and Romania, and currently working on Croatia, Slovakia and Lithuania. Recently, Jacek in cooperation with SEE Stock Exchanges has created the SEE Link, a trading platform integrating exchanges in the Western Balkans: http://www.see-link.net/ .
Prior to joining EBRD, Jacek worked in Financial Law Division of the European Central Bank, Frankfurt; Germany, providing legal advice on monetary policy implementation and crisis related measures, and at the Warsaw office of Allen & Overy LLP.
Jacek graduated from the University Of Gdansk School Of Law, obtained an LL.M. in Financial Services from Chicago Kent College of Law and a postgraduate law degree in International Trade from the European Institute of University Studies in Turin, Italy. In addition, he completed various courses in banking at German leading universities. Jacek is an attorney admitted in the State of New York. Jacek published various articles on capital market related issues, with focus on derivatives and covered bonds.