Simon Firth
UK Guide 2024
Band 1 : Capital Markets: Derivatives
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About
Provided by Simon Firth
Practice Areas
Simon is a leading authority on derivatives, specialising in the structuring and documentation of derivatives transactions and advising about issues arising in relation to derivatives and the financial markets generally.
Simon led the team advising the English administrators of the Lehman Brothers companies on their derivatives, repo and stock lending positions and has been involved in some of the market’s most significant cases involving derivatives.
Professional Memberships
Simon is a member of the financial markets law committee and a Visiting Professor of the University of Law.
Publications
Firth on Derivatives Law and Practice, Sweet & Maxwell (looseleaf), the leading text book on English derivatives law; and
“The English Law Treatment of Lehman’s Derivatives Positions”, in Bank Failure: Lessons from Lehman Brothers, Oxford University Press, March 2017