Karen Stretch

Practice Areas

Karen Stretch focuses her practice on advisory and transactional derivatives, regulatory compliance relating to derivatives, trading and benchmarks and certain capital markets and finance transactions. Karen’s experience includes advising on structured capital markets transactions with a credit focus and Karen is an integral part of the firm’s global fund finance team leading growth in the area from London.

Karen’s derivatives work spans clients worldwide on a range of discrete and transactional derivatives and related regulatory matters, trading documents and non-traditional investment and financing techniques, including repos, TRS, dynamic portfolio swaps, stock loans and other structured derivatives.

Ms. Stretch’s regulatory practice includes EMIR, SFTR, the Short Selling Regulation and the Benchmarks Regulation, with a focus since 2017 on LIBOR and benchmark reform. Ms. Stretch is leading the firm’s coverage on LIBOR and derivatives and is an integral part of the Dechert LIBOR taskforce.

Karen’s experience also includes fund products, during her career having provided full-service support to several funds and investment vehicles including MTN program updates, follow-on offerings, new compartments and sub-funds, and restructurings.