Joseph
Wren

Joseph is a partner in our Financial Service group in London. He advises funds, investment managers, banks, corporate and institutional asset owners (such as pension schemes) on their Derivatives and Trading needs as well as their broader investments.

Joseph is recognised as a “Next Generation Partner” in the Legal 500 UK 2026, with clients valuing his “professionalism, great organisational and negotiation skills, as well as [his] deep knowledge of financial products” and how they “always feel like [they are] in ‘safe hands’” (Legal 500 UK 2025).

Joseph is known for his advice on complex synthetic financing transactions, as well as for advising clients on managing risks and exploiting opportunities arising from interest rates, FX rates, credit exposures, equity investments, inflation exposures, and commodity price movements.

His practice covers:

• transaction and fund structuring;
• contractual negotiation, under fully bespoke arrangements as well as industry-standard trading agreements such as the ISDA, GMRA and GMSLA;
• regulatory advice, including EMIR and SFTR;
• OTC derivatives, exchange traded products and SFTs (including repos and stock loans);
• investment management, custody, prime brokerage, clearing and collateral management; and
• insurance risk-transfer arrangements (bulk annuities and buy-ins/outs).