Practice Areas

• Financial Services
• Corporate & Commercial
• Litigation

Jeff Henderson is the founding partner of Henderson & Lyman and leads the Firm's Financial Services Group. His practice is focused on a wide variety of compliance, regulatory, litigation and hedge fund matters. He provides counsel to futures, derivatives, forex and securities clients, including broker-dealers, investment advisers, introducing brokers, futures commission merchants, forex dealer members, commodity pool operators, commodity trading advisors and hedge fund managers. His practice involves extensive regulatory work before the National Futures Association (NFA) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Mr. Henderson is regularly involved in the defense of financial services industry clients before FINRA and NFA, as well as CFTC and various exchanges.

Before entering private practice, Mr. Henderson began his career in the financial services industry as a runner on the floor at Chicago Board of Trade, and he subsequently worked as in-house counsel and later as general counsel of Stotler and Company, a futures commission merchant.

Bar Admissions

Illinois State Bar
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, General and Trial Bar

Experience

Founding Partner, Henderson & Lyman, 1991 to present
General Counsel, Stotler and Company, 1990
Associate General Counsel, Stotler and Company, 1985-1990

Education

LL.M, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 1993
J.D.,  The John Marshall School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 1984
B.A.,  St. Norbert College, DePere, Wisconsin, 1981

Publications and Presentations

Recent Developments and Rule Changes for CPOs and CTAs, FIA Expo, Fall 2003

Professional and Civic Affliations

Member, Chicago Bar Association