Laura Schisgall

Laura Schisgall is General Counsel at Société Générale Americas in New York City.  In this role, she is responsible for managing the legal teams in New York, Canada and Brazil and serves on the SG Americas Executive Committee.  Laura commenced work at SG in 2008 and has been General Counsel since 2012.  Prior to being appointed as General Counsel, Laura managed the legal team that covered the derivatives, structured products and sales and trading businesses at SG.  Before joining SG, Laura was General Counsel of the New York legal department at ABN AMRO, where she spent seven years in a variety of roles, all within the investment banking business.  Prior to her time at ABN AMRO, Laura was in the Legal Department of Chase Bank, where she worked mainly on equity derivatives transactions.  Laura commenced her legal practice at the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, where she spent six years doing corporate legal work (securities law, M&A).  Laura is a graduate of Columbia University School of Law and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vassar College.