Our derivatives team advises on products and structures including:
- OTC stand-alone products, whether for hedging or trading purposes, including credit default products, equity derivatives, commodities and interest rate and currency products
- derivatives within structured transactions such as synthetic securitisations, CDOs and repackagings
- structured notes with embedded derivatives
We work with a long list of banks and corporate clients, including Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and RBS.
The skills of our derivatives lawyers are complemented by experts elsewhere in the firm. For instance, we regularly combine with our energy team to offer energy trading expertise and our litigation team to advise on derivatives-related disputes. We tailor the team according to the requirements of the case in hand.
As part of the European finance group, the derivatives team benefits from working with our alliance partners Gleiss Lutz and Stibbe.
"If the team remains 'willing to go the extra mile' and maintains its 'great team of lawyers,' then continued success is almost guaranteed"
Chambers UK, 2009
"The increased recognition of the practice stems in no small part from the quality of certain key lawyers"
Chambers UK, 2009