- Guy Usher
- Partner, London
- Field Fisher Waterhouse
- guy.usher@ffw.com
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+44 (0)20 7861 4209
Guy Usher heads the Derivatives & Structured Finance Group. He has specialised in
derivatives for over 20 years. He
advises on putting derivatives, committed repo and liquidity lines
into complex structured financings (CMBS, RMBS, CDOs, leveraged
finance structures) as well as advising on products in credit,
equity, fund, commodity and property derivatives, both OTC and
exchange-traded. He also provides advice on netting,
collateral, defaults, restructurings and central
clearing.
Guy specialises in the financial institutions sector and his clients
include global investment banks, broker-dealers, investment
managers, hedge funds and other end-users.
Guy is co-author of the firm’s highly
acclaimed Summary of ISDA Legal Opinions on Close-Out Netting and
wrote the chapter on ISDA Documentation in the recent book,
Practical Derivatives: A Transactional Approach, published by Globe
Law and Business. Guy sits on various ISDA working groups, and
regularly speaks on derivatives and structured finance at external
conferences.