These are some of the services that we offer:

• advice to institutional investors on transaction documentation for complex structured transactions (such as CDOs, derivatives etc);
• advice to investors in relation to disputes arising from investments in complex structured transactions; and advice in connection with any restructuring proposals in respect of their investments;
• advice to institutional holders of capital notes in SIVs who wish to swap their investments for the underlying SIV assets.  Such vertical-slice exchanges have become a popular way for investors to avoid crystallising market losses on their SIV investments.
• advice to distributors (i.e. banks, insurance companies etc) in EU jurisdictions in relation to the sale by them of complex structured products provided by external investment banks/commercial banks (“white-labelling”);
• advice to internal audit functions within institutional investors in understanding specific aspects of complex CDOs that need to be valued for balance sheet preparation;
• advice to national and international regulators and investor trade associations in relation to the understanding of legal and structural risk generally in this market segment and in relation to specific types of transactions;
• advice to other local professional service providers – such as law firms and accountancy firms in relation to the understanding of legal and structural risk generally in this market segment and in relation to specific types of transactions;
• providing in-house training seminars to institutional investors regarding the documentation of complex structured transactions.