Attorney and Legal Commentator
John Shu is an attorney and legal commentator. His focus areas include constitutional law, securities & corporate law, antitrust law, administrative law, politics, and international affairs. Mr. Shu has lectured and published on a wide variety of issues.
Mr. Shu served President George H.W. Bush and President George W. Bush. He also served Judge Stanley Sporkin, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who was Director of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and General Counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency, and Judge Paul Roney, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, who was Presiding Judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review.
Mr. Shu is a member of the National Committee on U.S. - China Relations, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Foreign Policy Association.
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Mr. Douglas is a partner in Davis Polk’s Financial Institutions Group, heading the firm’s bank regulatory practice and focusing on bank restructuring and resolutions and other issues arising from the current banking and financial crisis. He has been involved in some of the most difficult and sensitive matters during the crisis, including advising the boards of directors of Indymac and Bank United, counseling Citigroup with respect to FDIC matters, advising various parties on the fallout from the failure of Washington Mutual and advising various private equity firms on proposed investments in troubled or failed banks.
Mr. Douglas was appointed General Counsel of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 1987 and continued in that capacity through 1989. This was a period of unprecedented stress on the financial system, and he was involved in the major bank failures and restructurings of the late 1980s, participated in the landmark Financial Institutions Regulatory Reform and Restructuring Act of 1989 and assisted in the organization of the Resolution Trust Corporation.
Mr. Douglas is regarded as one of the leading bank insolvency lawyers in the nation.
Topics
Religious Liberty Update on U.S. Congress and Executive Branch Actions
Congress NEW LAW 1. On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law H.R.2617, the...
How Republicans Feed the Beast of Political Correctness
John Fund has an excellent column up at National Review Online on "How Republicans Feed...
Dinner with SEC Commissioner Michael S. Piwowar
Washington, District of ColumbiaAn Overview and Analysis of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Overview The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Act”), signed into law...
Financial Reform – The Senate Version
John Shu
Brought to you by the Financial Services & E-Commerce Practice GroupThe Federalist Society takes no position...
President Obama Proposes Size and Activities Limits for Financial Institutions
John L. Douglas
Brought to you by the Financial Services & E-Commerce Practice Group President Barack Obama's January 21,...