Claude Brown

Practice Areas

Claude is a member of Reed Smith’s global environmental, social and governance (ESG) practice, focusing on its environmental and social aspects and helping clients develop their ESG strategies.

He is a leading authority in weather risk management, adaptive finance, green finance and the voluntary carbon markets.

Claude advises globally on the design and implementation of carbon registries and trading platforms, and on transactions using products to mitigate the effect of drought on agricultural economies and to assist in sustainable energy generation.

He advises on adaptive finance products to assist developing economies generate environmental resilience. He has worked on credit risk mitigants for Multilateral Development Banks and assisted commercial banks in developing sustainable finance strategies and products.

Active in social financing, Claude advises on the financing of educational projects in the developing world and works with NGOs to provide innovative financing and credit risk mitigation structures.

Claude is also a leading member of Reed Smith’s derivatives practice, advising on both OTC and exchange traded derivatives. He frequently assists in developing new products and has been involved in a number of landmark deals and market ‘firsts’.

Claude advises on prime brokerage and related transactions, debt trading and market infrastructure issues. He helps clients to develop capital and regulatory efficient structures with risk mitigation.