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A&O Shearman Offices
599 LEXINGTON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10022-6069
NEW YORK
United States
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Mr Azam Aziz
Work Department
Derivatives & Structured Products
Position
Partner
Career
Azam Aziz is the Global Head of Corporate and a partner in the Derivatives & Structured Products practice.
He focuses on the structuring and documentation of complex over-the-counter derivatives products for banks, collective investment vehicles and other financial market participants. His practice also includes counseling alternative asset managers regarding regulatory developments, risk management and hedge fund formation. He has extensive experience drafting and negotiating highly structured trading relationships for a wide variety of products.
Azam represents hedge funds and other alternative asset managers, major financial institutions, as well as large corporate clients.
Memberships
- New York
Education
Legal Project Management Program
J.D.
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- Managing Editor, Hofstra Law Review
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B.E.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
A&O Shearman supports a wide spread of domestic and international clients in derivatives and structured products matters, such as swap dealers, hedge funds, corporations and market infrastructure providers. Donna Parisi
leads the team, guiding clients through the OTC derivatives transactions in a broad spectrum of asset classes, with a particular specialty in fintech matters. Azam Aziz focuses his practice on advising financial institutions on the structuring and documentation of complex OTC derivatives. Geoffrey Goldman specializes in credit and equity OTC derivatives as well as being knowledgeable in structured product transactions, including cash-flow and synthetic CDO transactions. Kerri Durso was promoted to partner in July 2023. All lawyers mentioned are in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Environment > Environment: 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
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation