Walkers’ Structured Products and Capital Markets teams are recognised as global leaders. Comprising individuals who have worked in the capital markets and securitisation groups of major international law firms, our teams have expertise in the full range of debt, equity, equity-linked, credit-linked and asset-backed securities, derivatives and other structured products. Our expertise includes securitisations, repackagings, collateralised bond and loan offerings, note programmes, commercial paper and depository receipt programmes and convertible debt and warrants issues.
Our wealth of experience has built us a portfolio of clients that includes most of the world’s leading international financial institutions acting in various capacities as managers, arrangers and trustees of securities issuances using vehicles established in the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Ireland and Jersey.
Our taxation team provides “front-end” taxation advice on the structuring of capital markets and structured product transactions involving onshore vehicles established in Ireland.
Our Structured Products and Capital Markets teams work especially closely with Walkers SPV Limited and, together, we provide expert, seamless and efficient execution of the transactions we handle.
Our teams are also regularly involved in the listing of eurobonds, alternative risk transfer products and all forms of specialist debt securities (whatever the domicile of the issuer and whether or not engaged as issuer’s counsel on the issuance), on offshore exchanges such as the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX), the Channel Islands Stock Exchange (CISX) and onshore exchanges such as the Irish Stock Exchange. We have good contacts and close working relationships with the exchanges and can secure practical and efficient listing of all vanilla and exotic transactions. Walkers is a recognised Listing Agent for the CSX and Walkers Capital Markets Limited is a Listing Agent for the CISX.