Our services include advising on:
- Equity derivative products such as vanilla and complex instalment warrants, other option based products (including collars and equity/total return swaps) and deferred purchase agreements;
- Funds investing in structured notes, equity/total return swaps and deferred purchase agreements;
- Stock lending/REPOs and LEPOs;
- Trading platforms;
- Hedge funds including fund of funds and quant funds;
- Specific strategy funds (such as buy/write, futures trading and structured equities and option trading);
- Environmental and Climate products;
- CDOs and structured note based products (including notes linked to equities, commodities and credit exposures);
- Lending arrangements for investment into these products;
- Prime brokerage and portfolio swap arrangements;
- Agricultural products;
- International tax and legal issues arising for inward and outward investments, including working closely with foreign lawyers; and
- Issues associated with taking security over listed equities and other "mechanical" issues regarding financing of and dealing in equities and hedging equity derivatives exposures.
