Please join the Adam Smith Society in Chicago on Monday evening, October 26th, for a private reception and conversation with Adam Cooper, Chief Legal Officer of Citadel LLC.

Adam is responsible for overseeing Citadel’s global Legal, Compliance, Transaction Management and Regulatory Affairs functions. He is also a member of Citadel’s Portfolio Committee. Prior to joining Citadel in 1999, he was a partner with the Chicago law firm of Katten Muchin & Zavis (now known as Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP) where he practiced for 12 years.

Mr. Cooper is a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as well as the Leadership Board of the Chamber’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness. He serves on the Board of Directors of the National Futures Association and is a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Global Markets Advisory Committee, The Financial Markets Working Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Buyside General Counsel Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and participates on the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, an independent, bipartisan policy task force.

Mr. Cooper currently serves as the Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA), where he served as its first Chairman and on the Managed Funds Association Board of Directors where he previously served two terms as Chairman. He has testified before the Senate Banking and Senate Agriculture Committees, the House of Lords and the European Central Banking Supervision Committee.

Mr. Cooper also serves on the Northwestern University School of Law Board, the Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Foundation Board and the Northwestern Memorial Foundation Board of Directors. Mr. Cooper received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a law degree from Northwestern University School of Law.

A reception will begin at 6:30 PM. The program, which will include Q&A, will follow at 7:00pm. This event is free of charge, but as there are a limited number of seats available, please secure your spot by RSVP’ing ASAP. Please note that the dress code will be business casual.