About Nicholas Gervasi

Nicholas Gervasi supports financial services clients across securities and derivatives markets in their regulatory and transactional matters. He advises exchanges, clearinghouses, futures commission merchants, and introducing brokers on registration, compliance, and regulatory issues

Building bespoke legal structures centered on efficiency and resiliency

From his training as an architect and designing buildings against many constraints, Nick understands how to balance competing interests between the law and client goals. Before joining Katten, he worked as a project architect at an architecture and urban design research group where he experienced firsthand the importance of creative problem-solving. During law school, he learned about the dynamic between regulators and registrants by working for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and the quantitative investment management arm of a global asset manager.

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Education
  • Fordham University School of Law, JD, cum laude
  • Columbia University, MS
  • Tulane University School of Architecture, M. Arch
  • Tulane University School of Architecture, B. Arch
  • Harvard Business School Online, Certificate in Sustainable Investing
Bar Admissions
  • New York
Professional & Community Involvement
  • American Bar Association
  • American Institute of Architects
  • Association of Securities and Exchange Commission Alumni
  • National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, Examination Committee
  • New York City Bar Association, Housing & Urban Development Committee
  • Terreform ONE, Board of Directors