Visit: www.glfpllc.comBoutique firm for clients requiring dedicated support and partnership in derivatives, repo, securities lending, structured finance and other capital markets transactions.

• Head of Legal Trading Agreements (U.S. & Asia Pacific)• Founded and managed team of deal attorneys and professionals expert in negotiating and implementing ISDA Master Agreements, Credit Support Annexes, ISDA Protocols, OTC swap, futures and listed options clearing agreements, account control agreements, MSFTAs, MRAs, GMRAs, equity, credit derivatives and FX master confirmations, term sheets, investment management agreements, NDAs, netting agreements, guarantees, side letters and ancillary documentation.• Collaborated with senior management and other department heads on strategic planning and change management initiatives and sat on various committees to drive the derivatives business and operations.• Organized and led personnel and resources across functional areas to analyze, structure and execute new and complex transactions (e.g., CLOs, regulatory/initial margin, cryptocurrency futures, TALF SPVs).• Advised portfolio managers on transaction life cycle matters from RFPs through funding, launch, performance and return-of-capital stages.• Coordinated across global financing and trading desks, and compliance, legal, ERISA, tax, client relationship management and operations teams to carryout hedging and deal execution priorities.• Planned and ensured firm readiness to meet ongoing CFTC, SEC and ESMA regulatory initiatives (e.g., Dodd-Frank, 1940 Act, FINRA Rule 4210, EMIR, MiFID).

• Morgan Stanley Strategy Challenge alumnus, top-performing employees consulting competition.• #2 officer-in-charge of division’s post-financial crisis SPV recovery & remediation project.• Led multi-functional teams in relationship and market access solutions for Morgan Stanley’s top 10 fund manager clients.• Handled high-volume trading documentation for OTC derivatives embedded in CMBS, RMBS, CDOs, commercial paper, real estate and other lending and asset-backed deals.• Managed derivatives-embedded securitization transactions from term sheet to closing. Negotiated directly with stakeholders, including opposing counsel and custodians to resolve deal contingencies.• Negotiated Dodd-Frank / ISDA Protocol documentation, tri-party account control agreements, custom collateral contracts, side letters, legal opinions, confidentiality agreements, default notices and guarantees for FX, interest rate swaps, options, CDS, total return swaps and repo.

Represented issuers, underwriters, sponsors and originators in a variety of capital markets transactions, including CLOs, CDOs, ABS, CMBS and bespoke structured products.

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