Our business is tailored to be an integral part of our clientsâ legal, operational and risk management processes. We provide dynamic and proactive advice in relation to the negotiation of all the trading and counterparty documentation, and any associated regulatory issues that arise. We can assist new start-ups, established hedge funds, managed accounts, funds of funds, UCITS, QIFs, QAIFS, RAIF, PIFs, and any other professional fund, private investment vehicles, umbrella funds, fund platforms, out-sourced trading entities, specialist investment banks AIFMâs and asset managers.
We also provide mediation as a cost effective and amicable dispute resolution service focused on trading and counterparty documentation.
We review, redraft and negotiate all counterparty documentation. This forms a significant part of Oesaâs offering across all buy side strategies and specialist sell side businesses and outsourced trading entities. We are known for our no nonsense fair and efficient approach. Maintaining the clientâs prime brokerage and bank counterparty relationships.
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Oesa can also act for fund platforms to set up umbrella documents which is cost effective and efficient for the addition of future funds. Or negotiate or review, which ever is required, the platforms documents for a fund when onboarding to a multi manager platform.
Oesa offers insightful commercial advice on regulatory and legal matters affecting the alternative asset management business. We cut through all the legal and regulatory jargon and provide solutions to the front, middle and back offices alike.
We advise our clients on many issues including how to structure individual transactions, including key terms to protect against lifecycle events, potential disruption and events of default.
We provide helpful & timely advice regarding trade disputes and events of default and how to manage and settle them amicably without dire consequences or forced close outs occurring. To date, after 23 years in business, we have never had a client forcibly closed out.
Recently Kate Wormald has become an accredited mediator and a registered associate member of the Civil Mediation Council (âCMCâ). Consequently, Kate can mediate civil & commercial disputes and is looking to grow this practice. With 35 plus years in the City on both the sell and the buy side, this places her in a very good position to assist financial counterparties with documentation and trade disputes in a non-confrontational, private and confidential environment to find a mutually acceptable resolution. Mediation is a cost-effective way to do so, without the huge delays in engaging in lengthy litigation or arbitration processes.
Kate Wormald has been a sales and trading lawyer all of her career. She has contributed to many industry initiatives. Her experience is unsurpassed by the competition as she was trail blazing the innovative landscape in the 90âs and contributing to the industry initiatives at that time now known as the Wild West. Many competitors appeared a decade or more later. She is recognised as a leader in her field, winning awards on a regular basis only a few are listed on this website.
Time is money and so we conduct ourselves to ensure we get the results the client needs in the most efficient and practical manner, to make the most productive use of our clientsâ time and resources.
We were the first legal experts in this space to offer fixed fees. These have proved popular as they enable our clients to budget accurately for their legal costs without worrying about a clock ticking in the background, extra time paying for more senior lawyers to opine, or time spent supervising junior or trainee lawyers.
