Daniel Winterfeldt

Daniel Winterfeldt is a Managing Director and the General Counsel for EMEA and Asia at Jefferies. He is a senior corporate and securities lawyer with over 22 years of experience in London and New York.

Daniel founded the Forum for US Securities Lawyers in London (www.tffuslil.com) in 2006 to address US securities issues in the London market across law firms, banks and intermediaries. In 2015 the Forum took a leading role in supporting the London Stock Exchange and Euroclear UK & Ireland (CREST) in designing and implementing the system to allow for the electronic trading and settlement of Regulation S, Category 3 securities of US issuers trading on the London Stock Exchange. For this innovation, which makes it easier for US companies to IPO on the London Stock Exchange, the Forum was 'Highly Commended" by the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards in 2016 in the category ‘Innovation in Navigating Regulation’.

In 2008, Daniel founded the InterLaw Diversity Forum (www.interlawdiversityforum.org), which seeks to promote meritocracy and inclusion for all diverse and socially disadvantaged groups in the legal sector. The InterLaw Diversity Forum was ‘Highly Commended’ by the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards in 2016 for ‘Innovation in Human Resources’. The InterLaw Diversity Forum currently has more than 8,500 members and supporters from over 300 law firms and chambers, and over 500 corporates and financial institutions.

He was named the ‘Legal Innovator of the Year’ at the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards in 2012 for his work in capital markets and diversity and inclusion.

Daniel was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in 2013.

In 2020 Daniel was appointed as Queen’s Counsel Honoris Causa (Honorary QC) for both his contributions to capital markets in England & Wales through the Forum for US Securities Lawyers in London as well as his contributions to diversity, inclusion and culture in the legal sector through the InterLaw Diversity Forum.

In 2020 Daniel was named an MBE for “Services to Capital Markets, to Equality and to Diversity in the Legal Profession” for his work through the Forum for US Securities Lawyers in London and through the InterLaw Diversity Forum.

Daniel was a member of the Equality & Diversity Committee at the Law Society of England & Wales for six years; he was a member of the Judicial Appointments Commission’s Judicial Diversity Task Force for three years.

Daniel was a member of the Primary Markets Group of the London Stock Exchange for seven years.