Sylvie A. Durham > Greenberg Traurig, LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Greenberg Traurig, LLP Offices
One Vanderbilt Avenue
NEW YORK
NEW YORK
NY 10017
United States
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Sylvie A. Durham
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Shareholder
Career
Ms. Durham has experience on both the legal and business sides of derivatives, private funds, complex financing transactions, and structured products. Prior to joining Greenberg, she was an investment banker and Head of Structured Equity Products at BNP Paribas where she concentrated on structuring equity financing and equity derivative transactions for corporations and hedge funds. Prior to BNP, she was a partner in the Corporate Dept. at the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Ms. Durham has been involved as both a lawyer and investment banker in highly complex financing transactions, derivatives, commodities, private fund formation and asset management advisory work. Since 2006, she has been heavily involved in the development and structuring of over $20 billion in financing transactions between private funds and financial institutions utilizing a variety of legal structures such as VFN programs and fund-linked derivatives. She focuses on legal risk mitigation techniques for complex financial instruments and trading operations.
Concentrations
OTC derivatives, futures and commodities contracts
Hedge fund formation and investment management advisory work
Legal risk mitigation relating to financial instruments and trading operations
CLOs, structured finance and products and synthetic transactions
Commodity& Exchange Act compliance
Dodd-Frank compliance relating to derivatives and investment management
Brokerage documentation such as prime brokerages, securities lending and margin agreements
Capabilities
Corporate
Private Funds
Financial Regulatory & Compliance
Futures & Derivatives
Regulatory & Compliance
Real Estate Funds
Banking & Financial Services
Investment Management
Admission to Practice
New York
District of Columbia
Languages
English
French
Education
- J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
- B.S., Finance, magna cum laude, Georgetown University
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Industry focus > Native American law
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Real estate > Real estate
Firm Rankings
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Industry focus > Native American law
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
- Government > Government contracts
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)