Suzana Sava-Montanari

Practice Areas

Suzana Sava-Montanari is a partner in the Paris office of Latham & Watkins. Suzana is a member of the firm’s Financial Institutions Industry Group and Structured Finance and Derivatives Practices.

Suzana regularly advises investors on a wide variety of structured credit, fund-linked or tax driven structures, including securitizations, capital relief trades, cash and synthetic CLOs, public and private debt, hybrid capital market issues, and OTC derivatives. She has also advised banks, sovereigns, and corporates in relation to structuring and implementing their general or finance-linked hedging strategies (FX, interest rate and commodity) or using equity derivatives in strategic transactions.

Suzana's regulatory practice includes advising EU and non-EU financial institutions, asset managers, and corporates with their regulatory compliance requirements under EMIR, including in connection with clearing, margining, and reporting, as well as in their dialogue with the European rule- making bodies.

As part of her pro-bono work, Suzana assisted through the Financial Services Volunteer Corps in Washington, D.C., the Albanian Financial Services Authority in preparing its new Investment Funds Law.

She was also one of the leaders of Latham & Watkins’ Women Enriching Business network.