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Joe Carrico

Joe Carrico is a US lawyer, specialising in derivatives and ISDA Master Agreements. Much of his career he was leading documentation/transaction management teams reporting to the front office.  Previously he was Director, Counsel and Head of Trading Legal Services Europe at Citi where he worked for three and a half years. Prior to that he was head of the Capital Markets Legal Department at Bankgesellschaft Berlin AG (now Landesbank Berlin AG) working both in Berlin and London.  He has also worked for Dresdner Bank AG in Frankfurt, Germany, Unibank A/S (now Nordea) in Copenhagen, Denmark and he started his in house career at Bergen Bank (now Den norske Bank AS, in Bergen, Norway.  Joe was closely involved in the drafting of the ISDA Master Agreements in 1992 and 2002 and has worked on a variety of ISDAs product working groups.  While in Germany he was on the German working group for the Deutsche Rahmenvertrag (the German Master Agreement).

Joe’s transaction / product experience includes:

Emerging Markets transactions, Funds, Hedge Funds, Sovereigns, Supra-nationals, Repo, Stock lending, Monoline guarantees, structured repo in rescue financing, Swaps on securitisations/repackagings, CDO (funded/synthetic), Conduits/liquidity facilities, Equity Derivatives, Finance Linked Swaps, Total Return Swaps, CDS, Government Bond Options, Structured and exotic FX.

Joe is a frequent speaker at industry and ISDA seminars and conferences.  He has lectured in common law at the University of Stockholm.  He holds a J.D. from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, an MBA from Cornell University and a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.  Joe also speaks German, Danish and Norwegian.