The team has specialist knowledge of cross-product derivatives and structured products. Our lawyers advise clients across all classes of over-the-counter derivatives, including equities, credit, currencies, interest rates and commodities.
We also advise clients on structured products, including CDOs, bond issuances, repackagings and restructurings, asset backed securities (ABS), structured investment vehicle (SIV) work-outs, structured and vanilla repos and stock loans.
We advise a broad range of institutional and corporate clients – including banks, financial institutions, funds and corporates.
Our lawyers have diverse backgrounds and expertise and have practised in a range of jurisdictions. Our lawyers are familiar with financial regulatory regimes in Asia, Europe and the US. These experiences enable our lawyers to bring perspectives tailored to our clients' needs.
We can help clients with:
- ISDA documentation
- FX and interest rate products
- structured equity and equity derivatives
- structured credit and credit derivatives
- structured commodity derivatives
- structured repos and stock loans
- margin loans
- hedging
- securitisations
- repackagings
- commodity financings
- derivatives disputes.
"The firm has strong technical skills and market knowledge."
The Legal 500 UK 2020
ISDA documentation
Advising financial institutions and corporates on the review of their existing ISDA documentation, including legal and regulatory updates, and development of internal derivatives templates.
ISDA opinions and advices
Advising financial institutions and corporates on netting and collateral enforceability of ISDA documentation.
Master agreement negotiations
Acting for financial institutions and corporates on the negotiation of derivatives master agreements including ISDAs, GMRAs and GMSLAs.
OTC derivatives transactions
Acting for financial institutions and corporates in relation to OTC derivative transactions across various classes of assets including currency, credit, interest rate, equity and commodities.
Structured note programmes
Acting for financial institutions in relation to the establishment and update of structured note programme, as well as issuances thereunder.
Structured commodity finance
Acting for a Swiss commodity trading house in relation to a structured gold financing in Indonesia involving cash-settled commodity swaps and physical off-take agreement.
Establishment of equity lending platform
Advising an English private investment bank in relation to the establishment of its equity-based lending platform.
Hedging
Acting for financial institutions and corporates on the development and implementation of hedging strategies, including in relation to interest rates, currencies and commodities.
Derivatives regulatory advice
Advising financial institutions and corporates in relation to their regulatory compliance obligations, including margin, licensing, trade reporting, dispute resolution procedures, portfolio reconciliation, disclosure and clearing.
Derivatives disputes
Advising clients on disputes in relation to, among others, close-out, valuation of proprietary trading derivatives portfolio and structured notes.