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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Offices
787 SEVENTH AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10019
NEW YORK
United States
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John Thomas
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Energy & Commodities
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United States > Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP advises on derivatives in the physical commodities markets, including energy, environmental commodities, metals and agricultural products, with demonstrable experience in listed and over-the-counter derivatives. The ‘deeply knowledgeable’ team acts for lenders, marketers, producers and commercial users of derivatives across a range of structured transactions, enforcement defense matters and regulatory issues. In the firm’s Washington DC office, senior counsel Paul Pantano represents clients in investigations and regulatory mandates before the CFTC, self-regulatory organizations and the FERC, and Neal Kumar focuses on derivatives regulatory matters. Based in New York, Thomas French leads the practice and Rita Molesworth advises on work concerning the Dodd Frank Act, while John Thomas handles physical commodity and commodity derivatives trading mandates. Counsel Margo Bailey, who operates from the Washington DC office, is another key contact in the team.
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- Finance > Commercial lending
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Industry focus > Sport
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense