Randall D. Guynn

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Randall Guynn
Born
Randall David Guynn

(1957-10-13) 13 October 1957 (age 65)
Education
OccupationLawyer
SpouseRobin (nee Quinn)
Children5 sons, 2 daughters

Randall David Guynn (born October 13, 1957) is an American bank regulatory and bank mergers and acquisitions lawyer.

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Biography

In 1981, Guynn was graduated from Brigham Young University, and in 1984 from the University of Virginia School of Law with a J.D. [1] [2] Between 1984 and 1985, Guynn was a clerk for John Clifford Wallace, [3] United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and from 1985 to 1986 he was a clerk for the William Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court. [4]

In 1986, Guynn joined Davis Polk & Wardwell and in 1993 became a partner. He practiced in the Paris office from 1988 to 1990 and returned to Europe for a five-year period in the London office from 1994 to 1999. [5] Currently, Guynn is head of Davis Polk's Financial Institutions Group and works in financial regulatory reform. [5] He has advised institutions including The Clearing House Association and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. [6] He has been a guest lecturer on bank regulation at Harvard and Pennsylvania Law Schools, and frequently speaks on panels at bank regulatory conferences. [5]

Guynn is active in several bar associations. He is a member of the Committee Chairs Council of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society Conference, and at a 2017 conference Philadelphia he took part in a panel discussion addressing "Financial Regulatory Reform in the Trump Administration". [7] He is a member of the International Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the New York City Bar Association. He is a member of the Executive Committee and chair of the National Advisory Board for the Constitutional Sources Project. [5] Guynn co-chairs the Bipartisan Policy Center's Failure Resolution Task Force. [1] He is a member of the 1994 class of the French-American Foundation. [8] He is the founder and currently on the Board of Directors of ConSource, which is an online library of constitutional history. [9]

Guynn is a member of the Federalist Society. [10] On February 17, 2015, he was a guest on the Society's Financial Services & E-Commerce Practice Group podcast, "Single Point of Entry – A Response to Paul Kupiec and Peter Wallison." [11] In 2013, he was a speaker at the Society's National Lawyers Convention. [12]

Awards

In 2017, Guynn was named a "thought leader" in banking by Who's Who Legal. [13]

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