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Capital Markets: Derivatives
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Profile
Practice Areas: Member of Davis Polk's Corporate Department and heads the Equity Derivatives Group. The group advises a wide variety of market participants--commercial and investment banks, issuers, hedge funds and institutional and individual holders of equity positions--on a complex array of equity-related transactions. Has been actively involved in the design of exchangeable securities containing imbedded options or forward contracts on the underlying equities, the development of mandatory and optional convertible securities that are issued in tax- or accounting-driven capital-raising transactions, and the structuring of public and private hedging transactions using collars and variable prepaid forward contracts.