Willa Cohen Bruckner is a partner in the Financial Services & Products Group in the firm’s New York office. She concentrates on derivatives, structured products and alternative investments and brings to her practice over 28 years of experience as a financial services attorney. Ms. Bruckner has worked extensively in new product development and in the negotiation and documentation of a wide variety of derivatives products and complex financial transactions, and she advises on derivatives products under the Dodd-Frank Act. Ms. Bruckner works with clients throughout the lifecycle of a trade or investment, up to and including termination and dispute resolution. Her advice is practical and draws on her experience as internal counsel on both the buy-side and the sell-side.

Prior to joining Alston & Bird, Ms. Bruckner was general counsel for a family investment office and fund of funds and a capital markets attorney for major financial institutions. She received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, her M.A. in economics from Yale University and her B.S., with highest honors, in mathematics from the University of Michigan. She is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.