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Chris Arnold
Work Department
Derivatives and structured products
Position
Partner
Career
Chris Arnold has more than 20 years of experience advising the world’s leading investment banks, financial institutions, end users, trustees, service providers, and industry groups on complex cross-border transactions, regulatory issues, and disputes in structured finance, derivatives, and capital markets.
Chris’s transactional practice covers OTC (over-the-counter) and exchange-traded derivatives, repos, securities lending, margin loans, structured products, and other risk transfer instruments linked to rates, currencies, corporate and sovereign credit, equities, commodities, funds, insurance risks, strategic indices, digital assets, and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) goals. He also advises on UK, European, and U.S. regulation of derivatives markets and legal risk management, including distressed situations and dispute resolution.
Memberships
- New York and solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales
Education
- Nottingham Law School (Diploma in Legal Practice with distinction 2001);
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- University of Nottingham (LL.B. Hons. 2000, Upper Second Class; President, Law Society)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Derivatives and structured products
(Leading partners)Jones Day joins the ranking having invested heavily in its London derivatives practice. The arrival of Chris Arnold and his team from Mayer Brown International LLP to lead the group brings strong relationships with leading industry bodies and major dealers. The vastly experienced Ed Nalbantian is highly regarded for his knowledge of cross-border structured finance transactions involving OTC derivatives. Working closely with the firm’s highly rated Paris team, Arnold’s group handles key regulatory matters as well as high-value and complex transactions in both derivatives and structured products.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners London > Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Derivatives and structured products London > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Real estate > Environment
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds