BIO:
As General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for BIDS Trading, Vivian provides strategic leadership and legal counsel for the firm and its board of directors.
Prior to joining BIDS Trading, Vivian served as Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel at the NYSE Euronext. Appointed by the President (now CEO), Duncan Niederauer, she led the legal team that was responsible for modernizing NYSE market structure, enhancing ARCA market structure, supporting new ETF/ETN products, licensing and distribution of market data and handling technology legal issues, strategic technology acquisitions and intellectual property protections.
Vivian began her career on Wall Street working for the legendary Norman Schvey at Merrill Lynch. Following Merrill, she joined Salomon Brothers where she built and managed a top-tier team of lawyers operating on a global scale to provide industry-leading expertise in intellectual property and technology, and related areas such as privacy, information security, disaster recovery and electronic communications for Salomon and its successor company, Citi. Vivian has extensive expertise in strategic transactions, licensing, product commercialization, outsourcing and merger integrations. While at Citi, Vivian also served as General Counsel for Citi’s Global Transaction Services Division, a $4 billion business line that provides cash, trade, securities services and fund administration services for corporate clients in over 100 countries.
Vivian founded the Wall Street Computer Law and Intellectual Property Roundtable, is a frequent panelist at industry meetings and has published on legal issues relating to technology and intellectual property. She was a member of SIFMA’s Technology and Regulatory Committee and was founding Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee.
Vivian is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School and Hunter College. She is a member of the New York State Bar and is admitted to practice before the Federal District Court and the Supreme Court of the United States. She is the attorney coach for the Mock Trial team at Newark Academy.
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e-mail: vivian.maese@bidstrading.com
