Finance
Slaughter and May continues to be involved in complex credit protection, CDS and repo work, as well as an array of transactional and regulatory matters for major banks, insurers, and blue-chip UK corporates. Ed Fife recently advised international energy and services company Centrica Plc on reporting obligation for back-to-back intragroup derivative transactions under UK EMIR, delegated reporting arrangements and the potential consequences of failing to report such transactions in accordance with relevant requirements. Richard Jones advises on derivatives in the context of securitisations, structured finance transactions, loan finance and general corporate treasury purposes. Caroline Phillips is a key adviser to sponsors, corporates and financial institutions.
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Work Department
Financing
Derivatives
Corporate and investment grade lending
Capital Markets
Securitisation
Debt Capital Markets
Position
Partner; Ed advises borrower clients across a range of vanilla and structured financing activities and lenders on more highly structured lending transactions. Ed regularly acts on leveraged finance, infrastructure and real estate financing transactions.
Career
Joined firm 2003. Partner since 2012.
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- 'The team were responsive to queries and their advice was both extremely knowledgeable of the subject matter and pragmatic.'
Key clients
- Centrica Plc
- TreasurySpring Management
Work highlights
Advised Centrica Plc on the reporting obligation for these back-to-back intragroup derivative transactions under UK EMIR, delegated reporting arrangements and the potential consequences of failing to report such transactions in accordance with relevant requirements.

