Peter J. Calderon is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School. His career spans legal practice with a major international law firm, the Office of International Legal Counsel of the US Treasury Department, the World Bank Group and the Finance Ministry of France. Peter’s areas of expertise include corporate and project finance, capital markets, Web3 blockchain protocols, corporate governance and anti-corruption protocols.
In these various roles, Peter has advised investment banks, multilateral organizations and foreign governments, including the finance and privatization ministries of Eastern and Central Europe following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He presided over the legal work that took the United States off the gold standard while at the US Treasury, transacted the first $3 billion of debt financing by the International Finance Corporation in international capital markets, and was a co- author of the model ISDA agreement used by major banks and hedge funds to conduct derivative transactions.
Peter currently heads up our firm’s corporate practice.