Derivatives
USA
5 years ranked
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Ellen Pesch
Global 2026
Ranked in 1 practice area
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ELLEN PESCH is co-leader of the OTC Derivatives industry group at Sidley. Ellen has more than 20 years of experience representing capital market participants with respect to structuring, negotiating and documenting derivatives and structured finance transactions. She has represented clients in a wide variety of derivatives transactions ranging from interest rates, currencies, commodities and credit to total return, inflation, weather, catastrophic and mortality/longevity transactions. Ellen also has significant experience with the various Dodd-Frank regulatory issues as they impact the derivatives market, as well as the regulatory issues associated with the intersection of the insurance and derivatives markets.
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Ellen is excellent, we love her. She is everything we need no matter how unique. She has loads of knowledge and can provide it quickly.
DerivativesChambers Global GuideEllen is a well informed and well grounded practitioner.
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