Deborah North
USA Guide 2023
Band 2 : Derivatives
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About
Provided by Deborah North
Practice Areas
Deborah North’s practice focuses on a broad range of derivatives and structured finance transactions, with a focus on OTC derivatives and structured synthetic products as well as the cross-border security arrangements, and the regulatory issues that they often entail. She has advised on a range of products including credit-linked notes, structured repos, and contingent credit default swaps transactions. She also advises on insurance-linked products and commodity derivatives including in the context of renewable energy. Her regulatory experience includes the advising on the design of credit default swap clearing, customer clearing and clearing house default management in Europe and in the US and the implementation of the swaps and security based swaps regulatory regime introduced by the Dodd Frank Act. Her clients include sell side, buy side and end user firms as well as clearing houses, sovereign wealth funds and market infra structure providers. She regularly advises ISDA, FIA and SIFMA on comment letters and industry wide initiatives. Deborah has also served the Market Risk Advisory Committee of the CFTC and advised the ARRC on regulatory matters associated with the transition away from LIBOR to risk free rates. Her transactional and regulatory derivatives experience she has been called upon by clients in the legal/tech and fintech space to create documentation frameworks and multi-jurisdictional regulatory analysis for their start-up offerings. Most recently she has advised ISDA, FIA and market participants on sustainability linked derivatives, the voluntary carbon markets and the transition to more sustainable finance generally.
Career
Deborah joined the firm as a partner in 2022 after more than two decades, including as a partner in London and New York of another firm.
Professional Memberships
Member of the Bar in New York, England and Wales.
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