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Craig Bisson

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Work Department

Financial services.

Position

Craig specialises in financial services law and regulation, with a focus on investments. Clients include asset managers, insurers, pension schemes and major corporates.

Craig is a partner in our Financial Services group in London. He specialises in the contractual architecture supporting transactions for the world’s largest investors.

He regularly advises firms on the terms of their investments in the international financial markets. These include SFTs (including repos and stock loans), futures, OTC derivatives and open/closed ended fund investments.

His experience includes advising on segregated mandates (IMAs/TMAs), product distribution, custody, prime brokerage and UCITS eligible assets.

He is a leader in global benchmark reform (including LIBOR), helping clients develop and implement their IBOR transition plans, including through machine learning and AI.

Craig is an expert in financial markets regulation, including EMIR, SFTR and MiFID2. He has advised a number of clients on VM and IM documentation.

He regularly co-ordinates cross-border netting and collateral projects and developed our innovative Netting + Collateral Reviewer product.

As UK Knowledge Partner, he is responsible for co-ordinating our Knowledge function and further developing our knowledge strategy.

Career

Craig joined Simmons & Simmons as a managing associate in the financial services group in May 2011 from a large City law firm and was promoted to partner in May 2014. He has secondment experience, having worked for six months as derivatives counsel at one of the leading fund management groups in the UK. He qualified as a solicitor in 2005 and is based in our London office. He is a member of a number of the ISDA Committees.

Memberships

Law Society.

Education

Victoria College, Jersey; Exeter University (2:1 LLB (Hons)).

Leisure

Surfing, wine collecting, equine art.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Derivatives and structured products

Simmons & Simmons has an enviable reputation for both derivatives and structured products work, acting for some of the leading banks in the market on hedging, prime brokerage, regulation, clearing, collateral, and transactions across all asset classes. The practice is led by financial services law and regulation expert Craig Bisson and transactional expert Oliver West, who frequently handles derivatives and repos. The practice is replete with talent, including structured finance specialist Paul Browne  and Sean Bulmer , who handles securitised and OTC derivatives. As well as emerging partner talents such as Eucharia Bragg and Marcin Perzanowski, the firm now has additional expertise in securitised derivatives thanks to the hire of Matthew Monahan from Linklaters LLP in late 2023. Perzanowski recently advised a major US bank as collateral manager and custodian on the $100m restructuring of a liquidity and sustainability facility designed to increase the liquidity of African sovereign Eurobonds, and to encourage investment in Africa under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), including green bonds.

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