Capital markets: structured finance, derivatives and securitisation: Foreign firms

Rising stars

Rising stars with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.

Miles Binney

Miles Binney

Clifford Chance LLP

Miles Binney has extensive international experience in derivatives and financial markets products. He is also a key contributor to the firm's international FinTech capabilities. His expertise across a broad range of asset classes, transaction types and jurisdictions offers a unique and highly valued package. Miles regularly advises on global and local financial regulatory developments and financial market infrastructure. Miles also has extensive experience in FinTech, with a particular interest in blockchain and crypto products. He regularly advises leading DLT technology firms, crypto derivative exchanges and other innovative businesses on global regulatory, trading and product development related matters. He has worked in our London and Singapore offices. He has spent time in-house in leading financial institutions, including client secondments in London to Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Man Group, as well completing an international secondment to Zurich.

Next Generation Partners

Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.

Leading individuals

The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.

Paul Landless

Paul Landless

Clifford Chance LLP

Paul Landless is a financial markets lawyer specialising in structured finance, derivatives and financial markets products, including securitisations, repackagings, structured notes, securities lending and repo. He leads the financial markets team in Singapore and South East Asia. Paul has extensive experience in commodities trading and financing, structured trade finance, carbon markets products and exchanges. He regularly advises on global and local financial regulatory developments and financial market infrastructure. Also, Paul is one of the leaders of the firm's Fintech practice and a member of the Panel of Recognized International Market Experts in Finance Foundation (PRIME) based in the Hague.

Jason Valoti

Simmons & Simmons

Jason acts for international investment banks in relation to structured and OTC derivative transactions, synthetic and cash CDOs, CLOs and repackaged securities and other asset and fund backed structures, including Shariah compliant transactions. Jason also advises international investment banks in relation to equity and commodity linked note, warrant and certificate issues. In addition, he advises investment managers on structured debt capital markets transactions.