Practice Areas 

•  Financial Services
•  Litigation

Mr. Kay is a partner in Henderson & Lyman's Financial Services Practice Group.  He concentrates his practice on counseling financial services entities in connection with a wide variety of compliance, regulatory and litigation matters.  He represents commodity and derivatives industry clients, including Futures Commission Merchants, Forex Dealer Members, Introducing Brokers, Commodity Pool Operators, and Commodity Trading Advisors, in connection with regulatory matters before the National Futures Association and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.  He represents broker-dealers and Investment Advisers in connection with regulatory matters before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Securities and Exchange Commission.  He regularly defends financial services industry clients in federal and state court litigation, as well as in FINRA and NFA arbitrations and CFTC reparations proceedings, all over the country.  He also counsels financial industry clients in connection with a variety of consumer credit regulatory matters and related litigation.

Mr. Kay has written articles and given presentations on a wide variety of timely litigation and regulatory issues.  He has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Richmond, and taught a class regarding the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to the staff of a national securities broker-dealer.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors of a national consumer products company headquartered in Chicago.  He also serves as an advisor to the Board of Directors of a publicly-traded financial services company.

Bar Admissions

Illinois State Bar
New York State Bar
Virginia State Bar
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia

Experience

Partner, Henderson & Lyman, 2007 to present
Partner, LeClairRyan, 1999-2007
Associate, Hunton & Williams, 1996-1999

Education

J.D., The University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, Virginia, 1996
B.A., The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1993

Publications

• Author, "Torpedoing the Uniformity of Maritime Law: American Dredging v. Miller,"
  28 U. Rich. L. Rev. 1405 (1994). 
• Co-Author (with Porcher L. Taylor, III), "A Green Board as a Climate Change Imperative: Appointing a Climate-Change Expert to the Audit Committee," 18 U. Balt. J. Envntl. L. 215 (2011).

Presentations

• On February 1, 2010, H&L partner Harris Kay spoke at a meeting of the Futures, Securities and Derivatives Member Forum of the Illinois CPA Society.  Mr. Kay provided an overview related to certain new provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

             HLK-Dodd-Frank_Update-IL CPA Meeting.

•  Electronic Discovery for the Financial Services Industry, presentation to Chicago Bar Association Financial & Investment Services Committee, December 2007.

              Click here to view Mr. Kay's presentation

Professional and Civic Affiliations

Chair, Chicago Bar Association Financial and Investment Services Committee
Member, Illinois State Bar Association
BV Rating, Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review
Member and Pupilage Co-Chair-Chicago-Lincoln Inn of Court