AdmissionsOverview
Chris is an associate in the New York Capital Markets Group. Chris’s practice focuses on transactional and advisory matters related to derivatives. Chris represents both buy and sell-side institutions in connection with the development, structuring, negotiation and documentation of a wide variety of financial products. These products include deal-contingent swaps, interest rate swaps, currency swaps, and other funded and unfunded products.
Work Highlights
Selected experience includes:
- ISDA: advising on the industry consultation and drafting of the ISDA Digital Asset Definitions and related confirmations and guidance notes.
- ISDA: advising on Linklaters' collaboration with ISDA on ISDA Create and drafting the ISDA Clause Library.
- Multiple swap dealers and hedge funds: representing in connection with the structuring and execution of deal-contingent derivative transactions.
- Multiple swap dealers: advising on interest rate, FX, and commodity hedges in connection with high-yield credit facilities.
- One of the world’s largest pension plans: regularly advising on all matters related to cleared swaps and swap execution facilities.
- Close-out Netting: advising on close-out netting issues that have allowed market participants to reach positive netting conclusions on numerous counterparties not within scope of the industry netting opinions.
- Regulatory Margin: negotiating regulatory initial margin documents for swap dealer and buy-side clients during phase 6.
Education and Qualifications
Chris holds a Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law, where he was an executive editor of the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy. He obtained a B.A. in History from Appalachian State University.
State Admissions:
New York