Dr. Ausberto Torres

Common Law UK & US Contracts Lecturer (Vertragsrecht)

American Contracts & Uniform Commercial Code (Vertragsrecht) Lecturer

Lecturer for an MBA module

Lecture and train CEOs, CFOs and other high level business executives in finance, business English and a variety of other relevant corporate issues. Current clients include Ebmeyer Werkzeugbau, GmbH in Gütersloh and EK Servicegroup, eG in Bielefeld

English training to executives at Miele and Bertelsmann

Of Counsel to Ada Torres, CEO of Ada Torres Immigration Law

ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY: Integral member of thriving Immigration Law firm which focuses primarily in preparing visa applications and petitions enabling entry to the US for professional immigrants as specialized worker (H-1), intra-company transfer (L-1) and treaty trader/investor (E-1). Responsible for drafting covering letters, responses to Requests for Evidence, and legal memoranda on immigration issues. Reply to queries from prospective employers and placement agencies. Maintain contact with immigrant benefic

CONTRACT ATTORNEY: Intense financial project involving a large European Spanish bank and its filings to the SEC (13d) regarding certain market transactions (Total Return Equity Swaps, credit and loan bridge facilities, collateralized mortgage obligations, equity swap guarantees, buy limit orders, equity coverages, block orders, Bloomberg Terminal communications, et cetera). Responsible for translating financially complex Spanish documents into English. Also responsible for providing analysis of the differe

CONTRACT ATTORNEY: Intensive electronic (Lotus Notes and JFS Litigators Notebook) discovery litigation involving the largest mortgage bank (publicly traded) in Puerto Rico and a Securities and Exchange Commission inquiry into its restatement of financial results due to alleged flaws in the way the bank valuated its derivative products. Responsible for mastering knowledge of certain exotic derivative products such as interest-only-strips, collateralised mortgage obligations and other mortgage based derivativ

Advised high-net-worth clients in managing assets with special emphasis on fixed income securities. Specialisation in US Treasury bonds, municipal bonds, agency bonds, corporate paper, preferred securities, equity securities and equity linked derivative products. Sold health and life insurance, fixed and variable annuities, set up trust funds and 529 college savings plans.

BROKER, PRIVATE CLIENT SERVICES: Managed client portfolios, making recommendations in equity and fixed income securities. Fiduciary to high-net-worth clients with aims to preserve and create wealth.

Managed extensive tape review for high profile investment bank and market maker in NASDAQ antitrust litigation and SEC investigation. Analyzed tapes of OTC and institutional sales traders to identify conversations falling within the purview of plaintiff discovery requests as well as those relevant to the SEC and US Dept. of Justice investigation. Oversaw plaintiffs’ examination of tapes and production of tapes and logs to SEC. Transcribed trader conversations involving alleged spread fixing, front running,

Corporations, M&A, Securities, Derivative Products, Fixed Income, Equities, Commercial Transactions, Financial Services, Immigration, Contracts, ISDA, Treasurys, Corporate Paper, Municipal Bonds, Capital Markets

Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, Social Psychology, Statistics I, Statistics II, Experimental Psychology, Physiological Psychology, Research Methodology, Cognitive Psychology, Sensation & Perception