Gavin Nelson Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Senior counsel covering the TD Securities business line, incorporating the former Cowen business lines. Reporting directly to the GC for Europe and Asia, I cover all legal matters for a broad-based investment banking group with a particular focus on corporate and investment banking, prime brokerage, trade finance and commodities, debt/equity capital markets, research, global markets, and general corporate matters.

London, England, United Kingdom

Head of UK legal for Cowen, subsequently operating as a division of TD Securities under the TD Cowen brand name. Reporting directly to the Global GC, I covered all legal matters for a broad based investment banking and prime brokerage business.

London, England, United Kingdom

In-house solicitor based on the trading floor and covering the full range of financial services regulatory issues and transactional matters.My key areas of specialty were legal support on regulatory reform, payment services, custody/client money issues, trading infrastructure setups, derivatives clearing/trading, new product launches, digital assets, and general business support services.

London, United Kingdom

In-house solicitor, based on the trading floor and supporting the prime brokerage, securities services and commodities businesses as well as covering general commercial and corporate issues.I covered the full range of business issues with my key areas of specialty being legal support on regulatory reform, custody/client money issues, prime brokerage, trading infrastructure setups, clearing, security and collateral, financing and lending, master agreements and trade documentation, data protection, IP/IT, dispute resolution, general commercial contracts, outsourcing and intragroup services, and general business support services.

London, United Kingdom

Interim in-house solicitor focused on regulatory projects, prime services, master agreements and client clearing.

London, United Kingdom

Sole in-house solicitor covering financial markets sales and trading for the investment management business. Alongside that, I provided specialist technical support and guidance to corporate and generalist legal teams within the insurance and group sides of the wider organisation. My key areas of specialty were legal support on trade structuring, operational or product specific matters, intragroup services, and product implementation/development with a focus on transactional derivatives and related products but I also covered, amongst other things, cash equities/bonds trading, IP/IT, finance/lending, procurement, outsourcing, marketing, personal investments, trade documentation, general business services, dispute resolution, regulatory issues, and investment/portfolio management issues.This role involved balancing an extensive caseload of technical legal work, supervising a shared paralegal and a large outsourced team (consisting of an onsite trainee solicitor on secondment to me and several offsite master agreement negotiators), as well as representing the firm in a wide range of industry bodies, committees and working groups.

London, United Kingdom

In-house solicitor focused on regulatory projects, prime services, master agreements and client clearing.

London, United Kingdom

Non-rotational seat structure with broad experience gained across a number of functions within the Corporate & Institutional Banking legal department:Conmodity Derivatives & FuturesInterest Rate & FX DerivativesInformation Technology & Intellectual PropertyOffice of the UK General CounselCredit DerivativesStructured Capital MarketsPrime Services & FinancingGroup Dispute ResolutionMaster AgreementsDerivatives Policy & Development

London, United Kingdom

Extensive master agreements/trading documentation experience gained from this and previous roles, including:Client clearing (including ISDA-FOA Client Cleared OTC Derivatives Addendum, ISDA/FIA Europe Cleared Derivatives Execution Agreement, FIA-ISDA Execution Agreement and LCH Accession Agreement)ISDA (including CSA and CSD) as well as structured arrangements (including initial margin segregation)Uncleared margin related agreements (variation margin, initial margin and custodian related)Confidentiality agreements (one way and two way)Guarantees (upstream and downstream)GMRA (including all annexes, bilateral, triparty, and cleared repo)GMSLA (including all addenda, bilateral, and triparty stock lending)MSFTA (including FINRA Rule 4210 requirements)IFEMA, ICOM, FEOMA (including CSA)Master confirmation agreements (FX, credit and equities)Regulatory documentation (including agreements produced by ISDA, EFET, IECA, and FBE as well as bespoke arrangements in relation to timely confirmations, dispute resolution, portfolio reconciliation, and trade reporting under EMIR, Dodd Frank, and FMIA)FX prime brokerage documentation (including principal and agency FXPB agreements, designation notices, master give-up agreements, three and four party give-up agreements, reverse give-up agreements, and bespoke agreements)Trading platform documentation (including rulebooks and bespoke trading agreements)Industry protocols and multilateral agreementsEFET (Power and Gas, including all appendices and CSA) and CPMA (including CPMA CSA)Exchange traded derivatives agreementsEuropean Master Agreement (including all product annexes)GTMAAlso experienced in a wide range of other commodity, futures, stock lending, triparty/account control, guarantee/credit support, confidentiality/non-disclosure, master/cross product netting, termination, agency/representation, give-up, regulatory, derivatives, FX, repo, services, clearing and miscellaneous documentation

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Belfast, United Kingdom

Belfast, United Kingdom

Bangor

Trainee Solicitor Litigation Programme

Experience gained in litigation and immigration law.

Professional Skills Course

Electives: Corporate Structures & Share Issues Corporate Borrowing & Taking Security Corporate Drafting Practical Commercial Contract.

Legal Practice Course, Commendation

Main Electives: Banking and Employment Law

Gdl (Exemptions), Land Law, Pass

Bachelor Of Laws (Ll.B.), Law, 2:1