Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP‘s derivatives and structured products departments offers an extensive range of conventional and unconventional product structured product advise. The team’s expertise in OTC derivative transactions makes them attractive to hedge funds, corporations, and the US Treasury Department, owing to the team’s experience in accelerated share repurchases, currency, equity, commodity, and interest rate securities, funded collars, swaps, forwards, and hedges. The practice can also rely on strong regulatory capacities, being closely familiar with SEC, CFTC, FDIC and Dodd-Frank regulatory matters.  Christopher Schell and Mark Mendez co-head the New York-based team, and field their considerable experience in equity linked products. Yan Zhang is often engaged in new financial products, while Derek Walters is experienced in transactions involving convertible note offerings, along with other OTC derivatives and structured products. Mark DiFiore enjoys a strong reputation in the margin loan, mandatory convertible security, and other equity-linked transaction space. Caitlin Wood fields broad public and private equity-related transaction expertise, including securities offerings, margin loans, hedging, and accelerated share repurchase programs.