Structured Products

Scope of Practice

The Structured Products Practice regularly advises financial institutions, derivatives dealers and hedge fund and other asset managers in structuring, negotiating and documenting hedge-fund linked and other structured investments as well as a full range of exchange-traded and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives.  Our representations also include advising our clients concerning securities, commodities and banking law compliance and regulatory matters as well as domestic and cross-border tax issues.  We also provide ongoing advice concerning the trading, marketing and sales of OTC and exchange-traded derivatives and structured products.  Attorneys in the practice apply an interdisciplinary approach in providing comprehensive solution-focused legal services.

Breadth and Depth of Experience

Our attorneys have extensive experience concerning:

• CDOs and CLOs and other domestic and cross-border securitization transactions;
• credit-linked notes, total return swaps and credit default swaps;
• equity swaps, options, collars and forwards, including prepaid variable forwards;
• ISDA Master Agreements covering a full range of OTC derivatives;
• financial futures and many other exchange-traded futures contracts;
• repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements;
• securities lending agreements, swaptions, ASCOTs and GICs
• energy and municipal derivatives;
• synthetic refundings, financial guaranty insurance, and stable-value insurance products; and 
• muni-bond finance and trust structures.

Our experience extends to:

• hedge fund lending transactions, options, swaps and warrants;
• principal protected hedge fund-linked notes (e.g., CPPI, Zero + Call);
• business trust, hedge fund linked and principal protected certificates;
• preferred share class lending structures;
• premium finance;
• PPVULI transactions; and
• leverage and/or principal protected insurance dedicated fund-of-funds.

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