James Booth Email and Phone Number

Managing a team of lawyers providing legal support across the Financial Markets and Capital Markets businesses for Derivative and Secondary Securities products including associated regulations, governance, new product and infrastructure support. ESG/Sustainability legal support to the Commercial Bank more generally on a product, Net Zero target setting and strategy basis.Products include: Vanilla Derivatives, Repos and Securities LendingClearing, Initial Margin, Tri-party and Pledge GMRA/GMSLASyndicated and other lending hedging across a wide range of industries including large scale infrastructure initiatives.Structured products including rating agency compliant transactions, covered bonds and structured financings as well as CDS, CRI, Bespoke Collateral Arrangements and other Capital/RWA management products.

Managing a team of lawyers covering derivative, repo and other trading contracts across FI and Corporate clients. A strong focus on documentation development as well as process and technology development initiatives.Regulatory compliance and change project support - EMIR, Dodd Frank, BRRD, SFTR, Collateral Optimisation, Liquidity Reporting, Clearing, WGMR implementation, Cross Border Banking Licensing including European Passporting, CASS and Ring-Fencing.

ISDA & repo documentation focussing on prime brokerage.

ISDA & repo negotiations covering EMEA regions and prime brokerage.

Trading floor legal support.