Field Fisher Waterhouse grows derivatives and structured finance team with new hire
07 July 2010
Law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse announces today the appointment
of Pierre Labuschagne who joins the firm's Derivatives
&
Structured Finance Group as a Director.
Pierre specialises in exchange traded derivatives and has worked
both as a private practice lawyer and as in-house counsel. Most
recently, he spent ten years working in exchange traded derivatives
as a Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch before setting up
his own legal practice. He also advises on custody
arrangements, asset protection, client money segregation and other
related areas of law and is a member of the Futures and Options
Association’s Legal Working Group.
Field Fisher Waterhouse's dedicated Derivatives & Structured
Finance Group has grown in recent years, most recently hiring
partner Gonzalo
Fernandez who joined the firm last year from Ashurst and senior
associate Ben Watford who joined last month from McDermott, Will
& Emery. The Group has been practising in derivatives
since the early 90s and has been very active in the structured
finance markets in recent years. The Group advises global
investment banks, broker-dealers, asset managers, pension schemes
and multinationals.
Guy Usher,
Head of Derivatives & Structured Finance at Field Fisher
Waterhouse, said: "We are delighted to welcome Pierre to the team.
He is a strategic addition for us. We are very well known in the
OTC space but we have not penetrated the exchange-traded world to
the same extent. With the trend towards OTC clearing and client
money issues being so high on everyone’s agenda, the timing of
Pierre’s arrival could not have been better."
For further press information please
contact:
Louise Eckersley, PR Manager,
Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP on +44 (0)20 7861 4120