Kate is an accredited mediator, registered with the Civil Mediation Counsel, (‘CMC”) and is looking for new opportunities to help parties resolve, in confidence and amicably, civil and commercial disputes. In particular, financial counterparty trading documentation & trade disputes.
Over the past 23 years Kate has advised and represented a large cross section of the alternative asset management community predominately hedge, other professional funds/platforms and their asset managers in negotiating trading documentation and advising on related legal and regulatory obligations and continues to do so today. This experience is key to her being able to assist counterparties as a mediator.
Kate qualified as a barrister and then pursued a career in the City of London specialising in derivatives, prime brokerage and complex structured products. She gained invaluable experience in-house during the innovative period of the 1990’s including Daiwa Securities, Salomon Brothers (now Citi) & Goldman Sachs. Where she solely headed up the Prime Brokerage and European capital markets legal team that encompassed all the derivative trading activity for EMEA & Hong Kong.
During this time Kate was instrumental in developing title transfer mechanism for margin and collateral and her legal and regulatory foresight and pioneering spirit was integral to the development of a vast array of new innovative financial products. She contributed to the many industry initiatives especially at ISDA to standardise OTC documentation, assisting with drafting, including the ISDA Master CSA/CSD, Master Confirmations and the corresponding definitions, ETD agreements, and the GMRA/MRA that are all still used today and have stood the testament of time.
Kate’s wealth of experience is unmatched today in the alternative asset manager space.
Ian is a professional documentation specialist with 30 years of experience. He has worked in the documentation areas of Merrill Lynch, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, where he negotiated various agreements across a range of financial products, including bank loans and underwriting facilities, MTN and EMTN facilities, foreign exchange, commodities and swaps transactions including ISDAs, amongst others.
Ian has a wealth of experience in both ISDA and bespoke product documentation and has assisted on several drafting projects undertaken by ISDA to produce industry standard documents. He has been associated with Oesa since 2007.