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Sean Bulmer
Position
Sean is a partner in the capital markets group. He advises on securitised and OTC derivatives transactions as well as SPV structured finance transactions.
He advises on a range of on and off balance sheet securitised derivatives including notes, warrants and certificates, as well as repackaging transactions and fiduciary note structures. The underlying references for which include equity, fund, and commodity derivatives and indices as well as physical assets as well as bonds and loans. He has established numerous issuance programmes (both consolidated and non-consolidated programmes). He advises on the retail offering of structured products across Europe, including asset backed securities and leads the firm’s international Retail Structured Products Group.
He is also the co-chair of the firm’s China Growth Markets Group.
Career
Qualified England and Wales 1992 and Hong Kong 1997; partner Simmons & Simmons 2000, head of the financial markets group Hong Kong; head of the equity and fund derivatives practice London 2005.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Derivatives and structured products
(Leading partners)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.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners London > Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Derivatives and structured products London > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Artificial intelligence
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Investment fund formation and management > Retail funds
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity and nuclear)
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Finance > Securitisation
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Industry focus > TMT
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property finance
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets: mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Real estate > Property litigation