James Joseph

Practice Areas

James is a Counsel based in London specialising in derivatives and structured finance, with a particular focus on repackagings, credit-linked products and Islamic finance. He has extensive experience advising on a range of complex financing transactions linked to a variety of asset classes, including products (both in conventional format or Shari’a-compliant solutions) linked to debt securities, loans, interest rates, credit, funds, repos and stock loans, as well as on bespoke capital relief structures.

As well as advising a number of dealers on their proprietary repackaging programmes and bespoke SPV-based transactions, James has developed a market-leading specialism on the SPIRE secured note programme, the market leading multi-dealer repackaged note issuance platform. He regularly advises, and is a key contact for, a number of the world’s largest financial institutions on their structured financing needs.

James also has considerable experience advising on synthetic securitisations in all formats. He has acted for supranational institutions, financial institutions and investors across jurisdictions in their respective risk sharing transactions and on an array of structures.

During his career at Linklaters, James has spent time on secondment to Credit Suisse where he provided legal coverage for the credit structuring desk, and to Lloyds Banking Group, giving him a better understanding of the various commercial and cultural needs of clients. James also works closely with the graduate recruitment team and is passionate about identifying, retaining and training talented graduates.