Tamara de Silva is a litigator in Chicago.  She is also one of few securities lawyers to have actually worked in the securities industry as a floor trader and brokerage executive.  Her understanding of the financial services industry is unique to all but the most seasoned securities lawyers.  She specializes in derivatives and other complex financial transactions.

She has extensive experience in transactional work and regulatory and compliance work within the financial services industry. She has taken part in numerous arbitrations and negotiations between traders and self-regulatory organizations. Her understanding of the financial services industry including complex financial transactions, the commodities industry, swaps and risk, as they affect traders and brokerage firms, earned her clients in the financial services industry including two former Chairmen of the Chicago Board of Trade, numerous trading groups, hedge funds, traders, brokers and exchange directors. Ms. de Silva has co-authored several articles on risk and regulation within the financial markets.

In addition, she has assembled a team of non-lawyer consultants consisting of very experienced, expert money-managers and risk consultants from within the financial services industry, with whom she consults on a case-by-case basis.

Ms. de Silva focuses her practice on corporate defense cases including all securities matters, insider trading violations, stock fraud, accounting fraud and in particular Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) violations. She continues to represent traders and trading groups in arbitrations and negotiations. Her practice focuses on targets, subjects, and witnesses in grand jury investigations by federal authorities, as well as individuals under investigation (pre-indictment) and post-indictment allegations of white collar crime.

She is a member of several bar associations including, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel, the Federal Bar Association, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity and the American Association for Justice. She is licensed in the Northern District of Illinois, is a member of the Federal Trial Bar, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and has a pending application for admission to the United States Supreme Court.