Yesha Yadav’s research interests lie in financial market regulation, securities regulation, and corporate bankruptcy. Yadav has developed expertise in market structure, exchange design, digital assets, payments, distressed debt and restructuring.
Before joining Vanderbilt’s Law faculty, Yadav worked as a legal counsel with the World Bank in its finance, private-sector development and infrastructure unit, where she specialized in financial regulation and insolvency, and creditor-debtor rights. Before joining the World Bank, she practiced in the London and Paris offices of Clifford Chance in the firm’s financial regulation and derivatives group. Yadav has served as honorary advisor to India鈥檚 Financial Services Law Reform Commission and on the Atlantic Council鈥檚 Task Force on Divergence, Transatlantic Financial Reform and G-20 Agenda. She has served as a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission鈥檚 Technology Advisory Committee, where she served as Vice-Chair of the Distributed Ledger Technology Subcommittee and was a member of the Algorithmic Trading Subcommittees. Professor Yadav is a current member of Nasdaq鈥檚 Hearing Panel and the Board of Advisors of the Digital Dollar Project. In other public service, she has worked as Vice-Chair of the Tennessee State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.