Reed Auerbach
Reed D. Auerbach ’81SIPA, ’82SIPA, ’85LAW was until recently a Partner and Global Chair of the Structured Transactions Group at the multinational law firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in their New York office, and is now Counsel to the firm. Auerbach led a team of more than 70 structured transaction lawyers across offices in New York, Washington, DC, Chicago, and London. He has served as a Director of the Structured Finance Association and as a member of its Executive Committee. He has served on the editorial board of The Journal of Structured Finance and co-authored the Fourth Edition of the legal treatise Offerings of Asset-Backed Securities.
Auerbach has been an active alumnus of both the School of International and Public Affairs and Columbia Law School. He has served for 14 years as a member of SIPA’s Advisory Board and was recently appointed to serve on the Dean’s Executive Committee for the Advisory Board. Auerbach also recently completed two terms as SIPA’s representative on the Alumni Trustee Nominating Committee, including serving the last two years as the Committee’s Chair. He also has been elected and is currently serving on the Board of the Columbia University Alumni Association. At the Law School, Auerbach served as Co-Chair of the Reunion Committee for his 35th Reunion and is currently co-chairing the Committee for his 40th Reunion. Previously he served on the Reunion Committee for both his 25th and 30th Reunions.
Auerbach and his wife Adrienne have endowed a scholarship at SIPA in support of the International Fellows Program and have enjoyed hosting periodic get-togethers with both current and former scholarship recipients. At CLS, Reed and Adrienne endowed a scholarship for financial aid and established a fund in support of internships for students who spend the summer working in the field of international human rights for a public interest organization or an international NGO. Reed and Adrienne live in Bernardsville, NJ, and on the Upper West Side, and have two adult children, one of whom is a 2020 graduate of Columbia Law School.