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A&O Shearman
599 LEXINGTON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10022-6069
NEW YORK
United States

Work Department

Derivatives & Structured Products

Position

Partner

Career

Geoffrey Goldman is a partner in the Derivatives & Structured Products practice.

He regularly advises derivatives clearinghouses, trading facilities, trade repositories and other infrastructure providers on market structure, development of rules and documentation and commodities, securities and other regulatory issues.  He also has extensive experience structuring and documenting over-the-counter derivatives transactions of all types, particularly credit and equity derivatives.  He also has broad experience representing issuers, underwriters and users of structured products and structured transactions, including credit and commodity linked securities and synthetic and cash-flow collateralized debt obligation transactions.

He regularly advises market participants with respect to commodities, securities and other regulatory issues related to derivatives and other financial products (including implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act and other regulatory reforms).  He has also advised clients on structuring public and private commodity pools.

Geoffrey represents major U.S. and foreign financial institutions, clearing organizations and trading facilities (such as IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and its subsidiaries), other derivatives infrastructure providers, corporate users of derivatives, hedge funds and industry groups.

He is a regular speaker on derivatives topics at Practising Law InstituteInternational Swaps and Derivatives AssociationABA, New York City bar and Futures Industry Association and other industry association conferences and events.

Memberships

New York

Education

Columbia University School of Law

J.D.

Editor-in-Chief, Columbia Law Review

Standford University

A.B.

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.