Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP‘s derivatives offering is sought after by financial institutions, hedge and mutual funds, companies, brokers, and asset managers for its expertise in the full range of financial instruments and asset classes. The team is experienced in advising on equity derivative transactions, OTC derivatives, and cleared products, along with interest rate and currency swaps, forwards, repos, accelerated stock repurchase programs and more. Ray Shirazi heads the team, and is particularly well versed in structured products, traded securities and equity derivatives, and has been retained to advise on income structured products, equity, currency, commodities and other underlying assets, credit and equity derivatives. William Breslin is a proficient member of the team in OTC, exchange-traded, and cleared derivatives transactions, along with CFTC and Dodd-Frank regulation compliance. David Mitchell’s practice focuses on commodities, derivatives and futures, swaps, especially in regulatory queries. Nihal Patel and Michael Yu are both highly active members of the team, with the former’s expertise in prime brokerage, commercial papers and other derivatives complementing the latter’s experience in ISDA Master Agreements, hedge funds, fixed income and insurance derivatives. All lawyers mentioned are in New York.