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Chris Arnold

Chris Arnold

Global 2026

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Practice Areas

Financial Markets

Career

Chris Arnold has almost 25 years’ experience advising the world's leading investment banks, financial institutions, end users, trustees, service providers, and industry groups on complex cross-border transactions, regulatory issues, and disputes in structured finance, derivatives, and capital markets.

Chris's transactional practice covers OTC (over-the-counter) and exchange-traded derivatives, repos, securities lending, margin loans, structured products, and other risk transfer instruments linked to rates, currencies, corporate and sovereign credit, equities, commodities, funds, insurance risks, strategic indices, digital assets, and energy transition. He also advises on UK, European, and U.S. regulation of derivatives markets and legal risk management, including distressed situations and dispute resolution.

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Capital Markets: Derivatives - UK

Band 2
Band 2

Individual Editorial

Chris Arnold is skilled at assisting with derivatives transactions. His transactional knowledge is complemented by his understanding of deal-related regulatory requirements affecting both the UK and US.

Strengths

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  • He's super user-friendly, very good on the technical side and he's unflappable.

    Capital Markets: DerivativesChambers Global Guide
  • He is awesome. He's very practical and marries the technical piece with the commercial piece.

    Capital Markets: DerivativesChambers Global Guide

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