Derivatives and structured products

Andrew Coats

Partner

James Doyle

Global head of the International Debt Capital Markets practice

Simon Firth

Simon specialises in the structuring of derivative products, the provision of derivatives advice and litigation. He regularly advises participants in the financial markets about the interpretation of standard form documentation and the legal implications of key developments.

Habib Motani

Partner

Edmund "Ed" Parker

Edmund Parker is global co-head of the Derivatives & Structured Products practice, and head of the firm’s Banking & Finance practice in London. The Derivatives & Structured Products recently won European Law Firm of the Year, and was nominated for Global Law Firm of the Year, at the 2015 Global Capital Awards. He advises on complex OTC and structured credit, equity, fx and commodity derivatives (including emissions trading), as well as insurance and pensions-linked derivative structures. He advises on distressed derivatives, together with our litigators and insolvency specialists; as well as advising on central clearing issues and derivatives regulation, together with our regulatory team. Ed has strong structured finance/debt issuance skills in particular in relation to CLOs and hybrid structures.

Deepak Sitlani

Deepak is a Partner in the derivatves and structured products group. He is a specialist in structuring and documenting documenting of derivative transactions across the full spectrum of asset classes, including OTC equity derivatives, credit derivatives, interest rate and commodity derivatives. Deepak acts for a wide range of entities, including investment banks, corporates, investment managers, share scheme trustees and pension fund trustees. He has also acted for ISDA on Brexit, the EU Benchmark Regulation, the development of fallbacks to IBOR, the posting of Japanese collateral as initial margin, the 2011 Equity Derivatives Definitions and a template emerging markets equity option confirmation. He is a regular speaker on a wide range of derivatives topics as well as at ISDA sponsored conferences.

Michael Voisin

Michael is Global Head of Capital Markets and a partner in the Derivatives and Structured Products Group in London. Michael specialises in sophisticated financial products, including securitised, exchange traded and OTC derivatives, repackagings, investment fund products and financing, CDOs, and note and warrant programmes . Recent experience includes derivatives clearing, regulation and regulatory capital treatment (including the FIA CCP Risk Review), benchmarks , longevity derivatives, acting for the UK administrators of Lehman Brothers, ISDA on the drafting of the 2011 Equity Derivatives Definitions and Brexit and Eurozone matters.

Phillan Amin

Associate

Paul Denham

Legal director

Karen Stretch

Partner

Chris Arnold

Partner

Jason Brooks

Jason Brooks is a partner in the Structured Credit practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He advises leading investment and retail banks as well as other financial institutions and corporates on a wide range of derivatives and structured products. Mr. Brooks specializes in derivative-linked and asset-backed securities and advises on both wholesale and retail structured product offerings linked to a wide range of asset classes including credit, equities, funds, commodities, indices, and rates. Mr. Brooks also advises on repos, securities lending, collateral structures, and netting. He is currently advising clients on the impact of EMIR and other regulations relating to derivatives and structured products.

Timothy Cleary

Partner

Nigel Dickinson

Ed Fife

Partner; Ed advises borrower clients across a range of vanilla and structured financing activities and lenders on more highly structured lending transactions. Ed regularly acts on leveraged finance, infrastructure and real estate financing transactions.

Jessica Littlewood

Partner

John McGrath

Partner

Jennifer O'Connell

Partner

James Warbey

Partner, Alternative Investments

Ingrid York

Partner

Paul Browne

Paul is a partner and head of the Structured Finance and Derivatives Group in the UK. He focuses on structured products and derivatives, covering a wide variety of asset classes.

Sean Bulmer

Sean is a partner in the capital markets group. He advises on securitised and OTC derivatives transactions as well as SPV structured finance transactions. He advises on a range of complex securitised derivatives including notes, warrants and certificates, as well as repackaging transactions and fiduciary note structures. The underlying references for which include equity, fund, and commodity derivatives as well as physical assets. He has established numerous issuance programmes (both consolidated and non-consolidated programmes). He advises on the retail offering of structured products across Europe, including asset backed securities and leads the firm’s retail structured products group. Sean was based in Hong Kong from 1997 to 2005 and has extensive experience of Asian and emerging market capital market transactions. He is the co-chair of the firm’s China Growth Markets Group.

Matthew Sapte

Matthew Sapte is a partner in the firm's Banking and Finance department and specialises in debt capital markets and derivatives.Matthew regularly advises bank and corporate clients on a wide range of matters, covering bond financings (including Eurobonds, sukuk issues, exchangeables and MTN programmes), asset backed securitisations, receivables financings (including power supply contract monetisations) and derivative transactions (whether OTC, credit linked or finance related).