Keystone Law

Finance

Jennifer is a derivatives finance lawyer, specialising in OTC trading arrangements for corporate interest rate and FX hedging.

Following ten years in a City leveraged finance practice, she pivoted into derivatives and, since the GFC, has advised end‑user and buy‑side clients on tailored derivative transactions for complex acquisition, infrastructure, project finance and real estate financings, M&A and IPO event‑driven contingent trading, and operational hedging arrangements incorporating credit support and variation margin mechanics. She also helps clients navigate regulatory requirements associated with trading (entity classification, post-trading risk mitigation, and trade reporting requirements under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation framework (EMIR)).

She specialises in guiding executive boards, corporate treasury teams, and private equity sponsors, through best‑practice approaches, to create robust protection for their real economy risks.

Jennifer has extensive experience working alongside a wide range of buy‑side clients, both corporate borrowers and regulated funds, and has built and led law firm and corporate treasury advisory derivatives practices focussed on finance-linked hedging and structured finance solutions.

In addition to two decades of private practice experience, she has recent experience within a US-headquartered global financial client-advisory and trading business covering hedging and risk protection for private equity, infrastructure and project finance, real estate, corporate, fund FX, and social housing sectors.