Azad Assadipour

AZAD ASSADIPOUR advises primarily buy-side clients in connection with all aspects of their trading, structuring, and documenting of complex derivatives and securities transactions. Azad works with a variety of clients including hedge funds, registered investment companies, private equity funds and their portfolio companies, pension funds, insurance companies, energy companies, sovereign entities, and other large corporate end users of derivatives across a wide variety of asset classes, including equity derivatives, credit derivatives, commodities and foreign exchange. Azad has extensive experience negotiating a wide variety of trading agreements, including ISDA Master Agreements, repurchase agreements (including FICC sponsored member transactions), prime brokerage agreements, securities lending agreements, futures agreements, and account control agreements. Azad also has substantial experience advising buy-side clients on regulatory issues relating to Dodd-Frank, with a focus on regulations implemented pursuant to Dodd-Frank Title VII.

Azad regularly represents private fund managers in connection with a variety of structured and complex derivatives transactions, including bespoke credit default swaps, securities repurchase transactions, including in the context of structured and leveraged finance transactions. Azad also regularly represents a mix of private equity sponsors and hedge providers in connection with oil and gas securitizations and structured finance transactions.