Walkers derivatives team offers Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Irish and Jersey law advice on a global basis. We are able to advise on all types of derivatives, whether for pure hedging or complex/structured in nature and whether exchange-traded, over the counter or centrally cleared, and across all asset classes - specifically credit, equity, interest rate, currency, FX and commodity.
As a result of our wealth of experience, we act for most of the world’s leading international financial institutions, banks, pension funds, corporates, arrangers and funds as they look to broaden their portfolio exposure or hedge their risks.
Our expertise includes:
- Securitisations
- Repackagings
- Collateralised bond and loan offerings
- Note programmes
- Commercial paper and depository receipt programmes
- Convertible debt and warrants issues
- Repos (GMRA)
- Regulatory, particularly the impact of EMIR in Europe.