Witold Balaban is a partner in the New York office of Latham & Watkins. Mr. Balaban is global Co-chair of the firm's Capital Markets Practice and the firm's Financial Institutions Industry Group, and is a member of the Corporate Department and Derivatives Practice. He focuses in particular on equity derivatives and equity-linked products, including convertible and exchangeable bond offerings (both optional and mandatory) and related equity derivatives products (such as call spread overlays and issuer or affiliate borrow facilities), fixed and variable share forward sales and related equity offerings, issuer share repurchase transactions, hedging and monetization transactions (including equity-based finance transactions) and structured products distributed publicly and privately.
Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
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Global Co-Head of International DCM, Derivatives & Securitization and Financial Institutions Sector Lead
Michael D. Dayan’s practice focuses on structuring, documenting and regulatory analysis of complex over-the-counter and capital markets derivative products. He also works in the clearing of derivatives products. His clients include ISDA and major corporations, funds and financial institutions.
Corporate partner. He is a leading practitioner in commodities, futures and derivatives. He offers his clients a full range of regulatory, transactional and litigation-related advice in connection with product development; structuring funds and other investment vehicles; establishment of electronic trading facilities and clearing solutions for swaps and derivatives; and compliance, investigations and enforcement matters relating to futures, swaps and derivatives.
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Yvette Valdez is counsel in the New York office of Latham & Watkins, and is a member of the firm's Corporate Department and the Derivatives Practice.
Mr. Breslin is a corporate partner in the Firm's Asset Management Group. His practice concentrates on derivatives, futures and commodities. Mr. Breslin advises a wide range of clients, including hedge fund managers, private equity managers, commodity pool operators, commodity trading advisors, futures commission merchants, commercial end-users, and other businesses on regulatory and transactional issues related to derivatives, commodities and securities law matters. He also assists clients on their compliance with the Dodd-Frank Act, the applicable requirements of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Futures Association and the rules and regulations of various clearinghouses and exchanges. He also specializes in negotiating and documenting over-the-counter and exchange traded and cleared derivatives.