Yesha Yadav

Education

LL.M., Harvard Law School; M.A., law and modern languages, University of Cambridge

Summary of Experience

Professor Yadav is an expert on the regulation of financial and securities markets and corporate bankruptcy. Her research interests in the area of financial market regulation, including market structure, exchange design, payments, and digital asset regulation. She has a deep understanding of trading ecosystems for traditional assets, such as equities, US Treasuries, and corporate bonds, as well as more innovative assets such as cryptocurrencies. For example, she has examined similarities and divergences between market design for more traditional financial assets and that of crypto-assets and blockchains. Professor Yadav’s research in the areas of corporate bankruptcy, distressed debt, and restructuring includes investigation into the use of leverage and risk management in cryptocurrency exchange environments as well as in more decentralized finance ecosystems. She has testified at deposition and before the US Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the topic of digital asset regulation. Professor Yadav is a member of Nasdaq’s Hearing Panel, and is a past member of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission’s Technology Advisory Committee, where she served as co-head of the Distributed Ledger Subcommittee and as a member of the Algorithmic Trading Subcommittee. Prior to joining Vanderbilt’s faculty, she was a legal counsel with the World Bank in its finance, private-sector development, and infrastructure unit, where she specialized in financial regulation and insolvency as well as creditor-debtor rights. Professor Yadav also worked for several years in the London and Paris offices of Clifford Chance LLP, where she was a key advisor to the European Payments Council in its work to establish the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) and its various cross-border payment schemes.