Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP

Capital Markets

Partner

Passionate about conciliating law and finance from the early stages of her education, Katia Merlini is a Partner in the Debt Capital Markets team, focusing on derivatives, structured debt issuance and synthetic securitisation transactions. She acts for financial institutions as well as corporates, whether they are based in France or elsewhere in Europe and the world.

Katia has more than 15 years' experience in derivatives and capital markets from Simmons & Simmons and prior to that Clifford Chance. She advises French and other European banks, asset managers and insurance companies, focusing on complex derivative products (including commodity, equity, credit, fund and index linked swaps) and structured notes, certificates and warrants with embedded derivatives.

Katia regularly gives training seminars in respect of derivatives, securities lending and repurchase transactions to French financial institutions, including in conjunction with reputable training institutions such as First Finance, Development Institute International or EFE.

English and French

DEA de droit des affaires, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1999; Maîtrise en Droit des Affaires, Université Paris V, René Descartes, 1998; Finance, General, Toulouse Business School, 1996