Daniel M. Hecht – Senior Managing Director and General Counsel, Freepoint Commodities

For more than twenty-five years, Mr. Hecht has provided legal counsel to the financial services industry, with a focus on commodities markets. After graduating from Harvard, Mr. Hecht was awarded his J.D. from the New York University School of Law. Mr. Hecht then joined the New York law firm O’Sullivan LLP (now O’Melveny & Myers LLP), where he had worked part time while earning his law degree. Mr. Hecht later moved to Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP. At Stroock and O’Sullivan, Mr. Hecht represented commodity trading and other financial services firms, including Sempra Energy Trading, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Societe Generale, and UBS. In 2004, Mr. Hecht joined Sempra Energy Trading and ultimately was named Managing Director and Chief Litigation and Regulatory Counsel of RBS Sempra Commodities. After assisting with the multi-billion dollar sale of RBS Sempra to JP Morgan and Noble Americas, Mr. Hecht joined Freepoint as General Counsel at its founding in 2011, and now also oversees Freepoint’s Global Biofuels, Global Voluntary Carbon, and Solar Development businesses. Mr. Hecht is a member of Weill Cornell Medicine’s Dean’s Council and Inspirica’s Founders’ Circle. He lives with his wife and their two children in Larchmont, NY.