Robert Daniell > Macfarlanes LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Macfarlanes LLP
20 CURSITOR STREET
LONDON
EC4A 1LT
England
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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 is one of the leading firms for buy-side clients, though it also has a strong prime brokerage practice advising on documentation for UK and APAC transactions. The team led by Will Sykes, who acts in trading, hedging and financing transactions, and Chris Acton, who assists hedge funds, managed account platforms and proprietary trading houses, ‘has unparalleled market knowledge and is hugely commercial and pragmatic‘. Richard Fletcher has a broad practice advising financial institutions, corporates, fund managers, investors, servicers and trustees. Supporting the partners is a strong group of senior counsel, among them equity derivatives adviser Alex Coyne, securities finance and prime brokerage expert Rob Daniell, and hedge fund specialist Christine Long.