Norton Rose Fulbright

Norton Rose Fulbright provides ‘excellent support, insight and expertise across all aspects of bilateral derivatives’. The firm has many strings to its bow, among them strong banking relationships for structured total return swap and repo financing, in-depth emerging markets sovereign financing knowledge, and market-leading Islamic derivatives insight. Nigel Dickinson, who is a key adviser to investment banks on complex, cutting-edge transactions, and derivatives, repo transactions and structured products specialist Yusuf Battiwala, who is 'user-friendly, always available, provides commercially focused advice', lead the practice. Dickinson recently assisted Natixis and a syndicate of hedge providers with a $375m multi-sourced financing and hedging programme. Global head of financial services and regulation Jonathan Herbst is particularly adept in custody and clearing. Hannah Meakin is a highly regarded regulatory expert, who focuses on market infrastructure, derivatives and fintech. Newly promoted James Kent is ’extremely responsive and keen to get involved’. He handles OTC derivatives, securities financing transactions and structured notes across multiple asset classes, including equities, credit and interest rates.