Robert Daniell > Macfarlanes LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Macfarlanes LLP Offices
20 CURSITOR STREET
LONDON
EC4A 1LT
England
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Robert Daniell
Work Department
Derivatives and Trading
Position
Rob specialises in derivatives, securities finance and prime brokerage. He has considerable experience of trading, custody, brokerage and clearing agreements for derivative products, repos/stock lending and physical commodities.
Rob advises brokers and buy-side clients across a wide range of asset classes, and on the associated regulations and issues of market practice.
Rob advises investment and hedge funds, banks, pension funds and insurers, high-net-worth individuals and corporates on a broad range of documents and transactions. These include equity and credit derivatives, OTC derivative clearing and exchange-traded derivatives, prime brokerage, repo and securities lending, custody, margin financing, FX and commodities.
Prior to joining Macfarlanes, Rob worked for investment banks in London for 17 years, most recently for UBS, where he was a Managing Director and Head of the European Equity Derivatives and Prime Brokerage legal teams. Prior to UBS, Rob worked for Nomura International and Lehman Brothers; and for the New Zealand Securities Commission prior to arriving in the UK.
Rob has been involved in contributions on numerous regulatory initiatives, including OTC derivatives clearing, short-selling, safe custody, client money and shadow banking. Rob has been the lead drafter of a number of industry-standard OTC derivatives template documents that are now widely used by market participants.
Career
Qualified in New Zealand in 1993 and E&W in 2016
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Derivatives and structured products
Macfarlanes LLP provides ‘strong technical expertise, commercially pragmatic advice, and great value for money‘. The firm has one of the most prominent buy-side practices in the London market, and its work spans prime brokerage, derivatives, repos, clearing, and debt trading. Will Sykes (who has ‘a deep and unparalleled understanding of prime brokerage and financing documentation‘) and Chris Acton (who is ‘able to cut through the technical rules to give pragmatic and commercial advice‘) lead the practice. Acton and senior counsel Rob Daniell assisted Spanish defence and technology company SAPA Placencia Holding with an equity collar confirmation entered into with ING Group in order to partially finance the acquisition of shares of Spanish IT and defence systems company Indra Sistemas .Richard Fletcher, who advises numerous financial institutions, corporates, fund managers, investors, servicers and trustees, and hedge fund adviser Christine Long also play central roles in the practice.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Retail funds
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Real estate > Residential property
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Finance > Securitisation
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)
- Employment > Immigration
- Private client > Court of protection