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Naffie Lamin
Work Department
Derivatives & Structured Products
Position
Associate
Career
Naffie Lamin is an associate in the Derivatives and Structured Products practice.
Ms. Lamin advises buy-side clients, sell-side clients and derivatives clearinghouses, among others, on over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives, structured products, securitization, project finance and commodities matters. She assists clients with the documentation and negotiation of customized derivative transactions, including structured hedging facilities in project finance transactions. She also advises on various regulatory issues related to derivatives and other financial products, including implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act.
Ms. Lamin is a member of Shearman & Sterling’s FinTech Foundry program, which supports clients’ FinTech-related activities and the wider global FinTech ecosystem that consists of financial institutions, FinTech start-ups, venture capital and private equity investors, among others. She is a contributor on the firm’s FinTech blog, where she authors posts on current events in the FinTech space. Recently, Ms. Lamin served as a judge for Quesnay’s 2018 Female Founders in Tech Competition, where she helped evaluate business models of female-led FinTech startups.
Ms. Lamin is Co-chair of WISER, the associate-run network that supports and advances the hiring, retention, development and promotion of women at the firm, and a member of BLAQUE, the firm’s black attorneys’ inclusion network.
Languages
English; Wolof; Krio
Memberships
New York
Education
J.D., cum laude
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- Executive Affairs Editor, American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review
- St. Thomas More Scholar
- Honorable Theodore T. Jones Jr. ’72 Memorial Scholar
- Adam S. Hakki, Esq. ’97 Scholar
B.A. in International Relations, cum laude
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Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Tax > Financial products
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation