Greenberg Traurig LLP

Corporate

Shareholder

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.

ConcentrationsOTC derivatives, futures and commodities contractsHedge fund formation and investment management advisory workLegal risk mitigation relating to financial instruments and trading operationsCLOs, structured finance and products and synthetic transactionsCommodity& Exchange Act complianceDodd-Frank compliance relating to derivatives and investment managementBrokerage documentation such as prime brokerages, securities lending and margin agreements

CapabilitiesCorporate Private Funds Financial Regulatory & Compliance Futures & DerivativesRegulatory & Compliance Real Estate Funds Banking & Financial ServicesInvestment Management

Admission to PracticeNew YorkDistrict of Columbia

EnglishFrench

J.D., University of Virginia School of Law B.S., Finance, magna cum laude, Georgetown University