For Kimberly Lynch, the opportunity to work at one of the world’s oldest independent futures commission merchants was not an obvious career move. Then she found out that R.J. O’Brien and Associates was not looking for a futures lawyer, but for someone who could step into the role of the company’s first general counsel. She realized that her experience in international banking and the over-the-counter market would be a good fit.
Her first taste of finance came after law school, working at the Federal Reserve Board where she did a lot of legal work in international banking. After spending five years at Mayer Brown in New York as an associate working on capital markets, regulatory and finance, she went on to spend the next 10 plus years at ABN AMRO Bank and its subsidiary LaSalle Bank Corp. Most recently she was senior vice president and associate general counsel at LaSalle Bank Corp., heading the regulatory and corporate affairs group.
