Douglas Donahue

Doug heads the U.S. Derivatives practice in Linklaters’ New York office. He represents both buy and sell-side institutions, including dealers, banks, and hedge funds, in connection with the development, structuring, negotiation and documentation of a wide variety of financial products. These products include total return swaps, swap intermediations, credit derivatives, interest rate swaps, commodity swaps, currency swaps and other funded and unfunded products. In addition to Doug’s robust transactional practice, he also advises clients on regulatory issues, particularly those arising in the wake of the Dodd-Frank Act.

Doug also frequently represents the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (“ISDA”) on industry initiatives. He has been at the forefront of regulatory driven changes to the derivatives market, representing ISDA on all of their major Dodd-Frank initiatives since 2012, including advising ISDA and IHSMarkit on the creation, design and development of ISDA Amend (a joint-venture online platform that has transformed the ISDA protocol process and has over 100,000 users).