Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP supports clients on both sides of transactions and advises on regulatory and enforcement concerns. The firm’s clients come from across the energy, agriculture, and financial services sectors. Its regulatory expertise includes a comprehensive understanding of investigations relating to Dodd-Frank, CFTC and SEC regulations. It is also accustomed to a broad range of derivatives products, from the traditional to the exotic. Practicing out of New York, Thomas D’Ambrosio is widely experienced in transactional matters concerning derivatives and structured products, including commodity, equity, debt, interest rate and crypto derivatives. Chicago-based Michael Philipp covers transactional and regulatory matters relating to derivatives with knowledge in situations raising compliance and enforcement issues. Katherine Dobson Buckley is a noted practice member in Boston representing hedge and mutual funds, investment advisors and endowments on trading, legal and regulatory issues. New York-based Penelope Christophorou joined the firm from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in October 2023.
Key clients
- Entergy Corporation
- Ameren Corporation
- NextEra Energy, Inc.
- esVolta
- Citibank
- Corporate Office Properties Trust
- Long Road Energy
- BNY Mellon
- BNP Asset Management
- Freshpet
- Greenlight Capital Management
- Citadel
- American Water Works Company
- KalshiEX Inc.
- Merrill Lynch
- Eagle Seven LLC
Work highlights
- Represented Freshpet in its $402.5 Million Convertible Senior Notes Offering with a capped call overlay derivative transactions.
- Represented Greenlight Capital and various funds that it advises in the sale of restricted shares of Green Brick in a combination of transactions involving a $40 million registered resale and $85 million of reverse ASR derivative products.
- Represented Entergy Corporation in establishing a $1 billion at-the-market equity issuance program that could utilize equity forward derivative transactions.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Thomas D’Ambrosio, Michael Philipp