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Anne Drakeford

Anne Drakeford

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Practice Areas

Anne Drakeford specialises in derivatives and structured finance. Anne has worked on a full range of financial market products and transactional securities, including OTC fixed income and equity based derivatives, asset backed securities, credit and equity-linked notes and synthetic CDOs.

Anne also has extensive experience in the derivatives related aspects of loan finance, securitisations and covered bond transactions. In addition, Anne has advised a wide range of clients on collateral arrangements and security issues. She has also managed large scale documentation reviews both for major banking clients as part of their internal risk management exercises and for corporate clients in the context of M&A transactions.

Career

University of Sheffield (LLB) 1996

University of Cambridge (LLM) 1997

Nottingham Trent University (Diploma in Legal Practice) 1998

Joined Clifford Chance 1999

Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2001

Partner since 2010

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Chambers Global Guide

Capital Markets: Derivatives - UK

Band 3
Band 3

Individual Editorial
Anne Drakeford commands attention with her noteworthy OTC derivatives practice. She is noted for her understanding of derivatives and their connection with the wider loan finance market.

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