Paris Theofanidis

Practice Areas

PARIS THEOFANIDIS focuses his practice on finance, derivatives, and structured products with extensive experience in various subspecialties of finance, such as syndicated bank finance, structured finance, project finance, capital markets finance, private placement of notes, equipment finance, mezzanine finance, second lien finance, bridge finance, and maritime finance. He advises corporate borrowers and issuers, institutional investors, insurance companies, private equity funds, hedge funds, commercial banks, and underwriters on significant transactions in these areas.

Paris also represents dealers and corporate end-users in a range of over-the-counter derivatives transactions and structured products, including interest rate hedges, commodity hedges, foreign exchange transactions and currency options, equity derivatives, structured investments, total return swaps, credit default swaps, repurchase agreements, and cross-products netting and collateral arrangements. He has extensive experience negotiating and documenting physically-settled commodity transactions, including forward sale transactions involving the purchase and sale of crude oil, natural gas, and gold.