LAWYER PROFILE

Christopher Schell

Global 2026

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Ranked in 1 practice area

Capital Markets: Structured Products

USA

9 years ranked

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Practice Areas

Chris is a member of Davis Polk’s Capital Markets and Derivatives & Structured Products practices. He represents issuers and investment banks in equity and debt capital markets transactions and offerings of structured products, including synthetic exchangeable securities and other equity, commodity and currency linked products. He has extensive experience developing new financial products, including innovative offerings of units, warrants, exchange traded notes and proprietary indexes, for retail and institutional investors.

He advises on SEC, FINRA and other regulatory and transactional matters related to structured products, such as SEC comment letters, compliance projects and the impact of the Dodd-Frank Act.

Chambers Review

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Chambers Global Guide

Capital Markets: Structured Products - USA

Band 1

Individual Editorial

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

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Christopher is a leading expert in the structured products legal space, he provides us with excellent, extremely relevant and helpful legal advice.
Capital Markets: Structured ProductsChambers Global Guide
He is the go-to industry expert in this space for anything complex or novel.
Capital Markets: Structured ProductsChambers Global Guide
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.
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