Ellie is a supervising associate in the Derivatives & Trading team based in London, which acts for the buy-side of the market including hedge funds, institutional asset managers and sovereign wealth funds. Ellie has a range of experience in this space, including:
- reviewing and negotiating the full spectrum of derivatives and trading documentation (including repo, clearing, custody, variation margin and initial margin documentation);
- reviewing and negotiating the documentation required for bespoke transactions involving structured repos, total return swaps, credit derivatives, repacks and credit-linked notes;
- advising clients on all aspects of EU and UK EMIR;
- playing a key role in large-scale repapering projects driven by changes in the regulatory landscape resulting from Brexit and the transition away from LIBOR; and
- playing a key role in projects implementing legal technology across the derivatives and trading divisions of several large clients.
Ellie trained at a large global law firm and has spent time on secondment in New York and at a tier one investment bank. Ellie has also previously worked at a “Big Four” accounting firm in a role focused on leveraging legal technology for the delivery of legal services in the derivatives space.
