OUR SPECIALISMS

• Aircraft Leasing (Japanese Operating Leases with and without call options (JOL and JOLCO) • Rail Rolling Stock • Payment Undertaking Agreements as debt defeasance structures (PUA) • Equipment Trust Certificates (ETC) and Enhanced ETC (EETC)

• Corporate Stand-Alone Bond Issues • Corporate Medium Term Note Programmes (MTN) • High Yield Bond Issues • Equity Capital Markets • Contingent Convertible Bonds (CoCo) • Initial Public Offering (IPO) • Share Trading

• Oil • Natural Gas • Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) • Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) • Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) • Coal • Agricultural Commodities • Metals Trading (Precious and Base) • Electricity • Uranium • Wind Farms • Solar Energy • Carbon Emissions Trading • Shipping • Mining • Collateralised Commodity Obligations (CCO) • Commodity Linked Notes

• Trust Custodial Receipts (TCR) • American Depositary Receipts (ADR)

• Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) • Currency Swaps (FX) • Total Return Swaps (TRS) • Credit Default Swaps (CDS) • Equity Swaps • Longevity Swaps • ITraxx Swaps • Weather Derivatives • Earthquake Derivatives • Equity Derivatives

• Blockchain Technology • Digital Bonds • Decentralised Finance (DeFi) • Cryptocurrency • Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT)

• Algorithmic Trading platforms • High Frequency Trading (HFT) platforms • Single Dealer Platforms (SDP) (Reuters (RET) and proprietary models) • Multi Dealer Platforms (MDP) (360T, FXALL, Currenex, FXCM, Gain and Hotspot) • Proprietary Trading Platforms (Website Terms and Privacy Notices) • Trading Venue Memberships (Rulebooks and Membership Agreements)

• Asset Finance • Project Finance • Film Finance (equity and debt funding) • Trade and Supply Chain Finance (Factoring, Letters of Credit, Tolling and Offtakes) • Loans (Non-Performing Loans (NPLs), Leveraged, Revolving, Bi-lateral, Syndicated and Hotel Financing) • Structured Commodity Finance (Pre-Export Credit, Warehousing, Base Loans and Revolving Loans)

• Undertakings for the Collective Investments in Transferable Securities (UCITS) • Qualifying Investor Alternative Investment Funds (QIAIF) • Open Ended Investment Companies (OEIC) • Mutual Funds • Private Funds • Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) • Fund Linked Notes Issuances

• Securities Borrowing and Lending • Repos • Collateral Management Agreements

• Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) • Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) • Property Assessed Clean Energy Bonds (PACE) • Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) • Social Housing in the private residential property market for Local Authorities and/or Social Renters (i.e. Charities and Community Interest Companies (CIC) and Registered Providers) in the Third Sector

• Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) • Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) • Trade Receivables • Auto Loans • Property Assessed Clean Energy Bonds (PACE) • Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) • Diversified Payment Rights (DPR) • Risk Retention Structures (e.g. Capital Manager Vehicle (CMV), Majority Owned Affiliates (MOA) and Capitalised Majority Owned Affiliates (C-MOA))

• Murabaha • Tawarruq • Bai Al Ina • Mudaraba • Ijara Sukuks • Takaful • Wakala • Compliant Cross Currency Swaps • Tahawwut Master Agreement

• Asset Swaps • Repackaging Note Issuance via Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV Notes) • Credit Linked Notes (CLN) • Constant and Variable Proportional Portfolio Insurance Notes (CPPI and VPPI) • Collateralised Loan Obligations (CLO) • Collateralised Debt Obligations (CDO) • Structured Investment Vehicles (SIV) • Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT)

• Digitalisation Projects on Workflows • Financing and Implementing Fintech Solutions • Application Programming Interface (API) integration (Open Banking) • Software as a Service (SaaS) Agreement Reviews • Automation of Legal Documentation, Contract Reviews and E-Discovery as part of Legal Managed Services

The review and negotiation of a variety of commercial contracts e.g.: • Engagement Letters • Confidentiality Agreements • Mandate Letters • Terms of Business • Third Party Vendor Agreements; • IT and SaaS Agreements and Licences • Outsourcing Agreements • Service Level Agreements • Consultancy Agreements • Loan Financing Agreements (LMA standard and bespoke) • Settlement Agreements • Supply Agreements • Shareholder Agreements • Agency Agreements • Franchise Agreements • Distribution Agreements • Joint Venture Agreements • Disclaimers • GDPR and Data Protection Documentation • Website Terms and Conditions

• Loan Defaults and Workouts • Bond Defaults • Credit Events • ISDA Defaults and Termination • Resolving Distressed CDOs, CLOs and NPLs • Distressed Assets Claims Trading

Environmental: Clean Energy projects including Wind Farms and Solar Energy Social: Social Housing - working with Charities, Community Interest Groups (CIC), Registered Providers and Local Authorities Healthcare - working with Residential Home Care Providers Governance: • Drafting Internal Policies • Drafting Internal Procedures Manuals • Drafting Templated Documentation Sustainability: Negative and Positive Screening and Integration of ESG factors alongside traditional financial analysis Impact Investing: Utilising Impact Funds, Impact Bonds, Direct Investments in companies creating measurable social or environmental change

• Multi-Jurisdictional Litigation - Case Management • Litigation Funding - Assessment of Merits of Claim • Class Actions e.g. LIBOR • Litigation and Settlements e.g. Lehman Brothers

• Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) • Initial Public Offering (IPO) • Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPAC) • Leveraged Buyouts (LBO) • Joint Ventures (JV) • Private Equity Alternative Investment Fund Deals (PE) • Venture Capital Alternative Investment Fund Deals (VC) • Direct Investments in Private Markets

Reviewing and implementing the following Regulations: • European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) • Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MIFID II) • Commodity Position Reporting (CPR) • Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and Volcker Rule (DF) • Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance Based Products (PRIIPs) • Securities Financing Transactions Regulations (SFTR) • Securities Regulations and Risk Retention Rules (SR) • Benchmark Regulations (BR) • Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) • Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) • Bank Resolution and Recovery Directive (BRRD) • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) • Payment Services Directive (PSD2) • Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regime (SFDR) • Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) • Regulation on Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency (REMIT) • E.U. Taxonomy Regulations Brexit related experience: • E.U. Withdrawal Bill review as part of the Brexit Committee for U.K. Finance (formerly The British Bankers' Association (BBA)) • Trading Venue Terms and Conditions and Rulebooks • Cross-Border Licencing • Terms of Business Cayman Islands Regulations: • Economic Substance / Base Erosion Profit Shifting (BEPS) • Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) • Common Reporting Standards (CRS) • Anti-Money Laundering (AML) • Country by Country Reporting (CBCR)

• UK Receiverships (Administrative Receiverships) • UK Administration (Pre-Packs) • UK Voluntary Arrangements (Compulsory Voluntary Arrangements (CVS)) • UK Liquidation (Voluntary, Compulsory, Members Voluntary and Creditors Voluntary) • Creditor Claims • Debtor Claims • U.S. Chapter 7 Liquidation Bankruptcy • U.S. Chapter 11 Reorganisation and Rehabilitation Bankruptcy • U.S. Securities Investor Protection Act (SIPA)