Baker McKenzie LLP

Banking & Finance

Iolie Calochristos is an Of Counsel in the Structured Capital Markets Team in London, working in the area of derivatives and structured finance.

Iolie regularly advises sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, global investment managers, pension funds and other institutional investors, together with end-users (such as corporates, CCPs, insurance companies and rating agencies) on a broad range of OTC derivatives and structured products, including interest rate and currency swaps and options, total return swaps, equity derivatives, securities lending transactions, repurchase transactions, regulatory capital and tax driven structures, loan and securitisation hedging. Iolie also advises on the regulation of derivatives and other financial products in the UK and EU, particularly in connection with the requirements of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), the Bank Resolution and Recovery Directive (BRRD), the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR), as well as related legislation.

During her time at Baker & McKenzie LLP, Iolie has completed client secondments at: (i) Citigroup Global Markets Limited, working with the Prime Finance and Listed Derivatives legal team (July to November 2012); and (ii) Credit Suisse, working with the Strategic Transactions and Structured Equities legal team (June to October 2015).

English, Greek

The Law Society of England and Wales International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.

College of Law (Legal Practice Course) (2009) Trinity College, University of Cambridge (2008)