Mr Edmund "Ed" Parker > Mayer Brown International LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Edmund "Ed" Parker

Work Department
Banking & Finance
Position
Edmund Parker is global co-head of the Derivatives & Structured Products practice, and head of the firm’s Banking & Finance practice in London. The Derivatives & Structured Products recently won European Law Firm of the Year, and was nominated for Global Law Firm of the Year, at the 2015 Global Capital Awards. He advises on complex OTC and structured credit, equity, fx and commodity derivatives (including emissions trading), as well as insurance and pensions-linked derivative structures. He advises on distressed derivatives, together with our litigators and insolvency specialists; as well as advising on central clearing issues and derivatives regulation, together with our regulatory team. Ed has strong structured finance/debt issuance skills in particular in relation to CLOs and hybrid structures.
Career
Ed has written extensively on derivatives matters (see News & Publications). He is the industry’s most widely published lawyer on the subject, with his views regularly sought by the press and on television. His written works include an acclaimed trilogy of derivatives books, consisting of, as sole author Credit Derivatives: Documenting and Understanding Credit Derivative Products, as sole editor Equity Derivatives: Documenting and Understanding Equity Derivative Products, and as co-editor Commodity Derivatives: Documenting and Understanding Commodity Derivative Products. He is currently finalising his new book, Credit Derivatives: Understanding and Working with the 2014 ISDA Credit Derivatives Definitions, which will be released in 2016. Ed is a co-head of the firm’s India practice.
Languages
English Spanish
Memberships
Assistant to the Court of the Worshipful Company of Solicitors of the City of London Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Solicitors of the City of London Granted the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Solicitors of the City of London Granted the Freedom of the City of London Member of PLC Finance (Practical Law Company) consultation board. Practical Law Company (PLC) is the leading provider of legal know-how, transactional analysis and market intelligence for lawyers. The consultation board comprises leading experts in Finance and related areas.
Education
The College of Law, London; Legal Practice Course Queen Mary, University of London; LLM, International Business Law Dundee University; LLB, (Hons)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Derivatives and structured products
(Hall of Fame)Mayer Brown International LLP has ‘a flexible and commercial approach and does not enter into pointless legal point-scoring exercises‘, according to clients. Known for its in-depth knowledge of derivatives, thanks largely to the acknowledged expertise of practice head Edmund Parker, the firm is also becoming more active in complex structured products. Parker is increasingly involved in insurance-linked synthetic securitisations and credit-linked notes. Up-and-coming partner Nanak Keswani concentrates his practice in OTC derivatives, repos and structured credit transaction for investment banks, end users, and service providers. Keswani particularly focuses on repackagings, structured repos, TRS and other collateralised funding structures, risk transfer, structured note programmes and finance-related hedging. Musonda Kapotwe, who has extensive in-house experience at Barclays, is a key adviser on large-scale, cross-border regulatory implementation projects. Chris Arnold departed in January 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Derivatives and structured products London > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Trade finance
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Finance > Islamic finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Real estate > Environment
- Risk advisory > ESG
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: regulatory
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Industry focus > TMT
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Dispute resolution > Public international law