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Capital Markets: Structured Products - USA - Nationwide

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What the Team is Known For

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is a highly active market player in structured products, with expertise in structuring notes linked to a range of reference assets, as well as assisting with complex hybrid notes offerings. The practitioners also have extensive experience in the issuance and distribution of certificates of deposit. DPW lawyers ably advise on high profile transactions for leading financial institutions and boast capabilities in helping clients navigate complex regulatory requirements, including advising on the impact of the Dodd-Frank Act.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Christopher Schell
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Christopher Schell
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Christopher Schell routinely advises on the issuance and distribution of notes linked to underlying assets, with areas of expertise including handling synthetic convertible notes.

Christopher is excellent at presenting and discussing complex legal issues, both to internal legal experts and to others who are new to the subject area.

Christopher is a leading expert in the structured products legal space, he provides us with excellent, extremely relevant and helpful legal advice.

He is the go-to industry expert in this space for anything complex or novel.

Derek Walters
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Derek Walters
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Derek Walters demonstrates capabilities in complex structured notes offerings linked to a variety of single or combined assets, such as commodities and algorithmic indices, among others.

Derek is the standout, he is an expert in his field.

Yan Zhang
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Yan Zhang
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Yan Zhang is a well-known attorney recommended for her ability to act for financial institutions. She is well placed to assist on complex structured products offerings.

Yan is thorough and has a great depth of knowledge in the practice area.

Ranked Lawyers at
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USA - Nationwide

Capital Markets: Structured Products

Christopher Schell
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Christopher Schell
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Derek Walters
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Derek Walters
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Yan Zhang
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Yan Zhang
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