About me
JonMarc Buffa is the Counsel to the Director of Enforcement for Cooperative Enforcement at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission where he advises the Director and serves as the Enforcement Division’s point person to the CFTC’s civil and criminal partners at the federal and state level. Mr. Buffa previously served as Senior Counsel to CFTC Commissioner Summer Mersinger where he provided legal counsel to her on a variety of regulatory, enforcement, and policy matters. Mr. Buffa engages in federal court prosecution of violators of the federal commodities and derivatives laws. He was the CFTC lead counsel on numerous civil enforcement matters including the $7 billion fraud case CFTC v. Walsh (WG Trading) et al. and $150 million precious metals fraud case brought by the CFTC and 30 State Securities Regulators, CFTC et al. v. TMTE (Metals.com) et al. He was also Special Counsel and Policy Advisor to former CFTC Commissioner Scott D. O’Malia where he advised him on the implementation and promulgation of regulations pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act.
In addition to his work at the CFTC, Mr. Buffa is a longtime adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center teaching courses including Complex Derivative Transactions, Implementing Financial Reform, and Financial Market Reform and Innovation. Prior to joining the CFTC, Mr. Buffa was a senior associate at three major national and international law firms. He is a graduate of Notre Dame Law School and Boston College’s Carroll School of Management, cum laude, with a double major in Finance and Marketing.