Christine advises private capital clients, asset managers, hedge funds, insurance companies and pension funds across the full spectrum of derivatives and structured products.
Christine specialises in creating bespoke structures highly targeted to the client’s commercial needs, combining expertise across derivatives, repo, stock lending, debt trading and structured finance.
Christine regularly advises on:
- currency sleeve hedging for closed-ended funds
- trading documentation including cleared and OTC derivatives, prime brokerage, repo and stock lending
- emerging market sovereign lending using total return swaps and structured repo
- fund finance solutions using total return swaps and funded participations as mechanisms for leverage or syndication
- hedging solutions across all asset classes, from interest rates to FX, credit, equities, inflation and commodities
- all regulatory requirements related to OTC derivatives including EMIR and SFTR
- credit default swaps and opportunistic credit strategies
- total return swaps on equities, loans and bonds
Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, Christne was a Senior Counsel on the Derivatives & Trading team at Macfarlanes. Christine also spent over a decade on the Derivatives and Structured Finance team at Allen & Overy.
Christine has worked in London, Paris and Hong Kong and has undertaken client secondments at RBS and Credit Suisse.
Christine has advised on a wide range of transactions for credit funds, emerging markets funds and hedge funds. Christine’s experience includes:
- advising a leading opportunistic fund on a repo and back-to-back sub-participation secured over emerging market sovereign bonds to provide financing to the central bank of the same sovereign
- advising an opportunistic fund on the purchase of a £145m inflation-linked loan and related inflation swap in respect of a distressed utility company undergoing a restructuring
- advising an emerging markets asset manager on a $150m repo facility to provide funding to an emerging markets sovereign wealth fund and related back-to-back hedging arrangements
- advising a credit fund on single-asset total return swaps as part of a back leverage solution offered by various investment banks, including advice on the applicability of leverage caps, indebtedness restrictions in subscription facilities, regulatory advice and commercial negotiation advice
- advising a credit fund on the sale of a portfolio of non-performing loans and related corporate vehicles structured via a series of sub-participations
- advising an emerging markets asset manager on a $112m financing structure using options and forwards to launch a new commodity-backed currency for an emerging market sovereign
- BA, Jurisprudence, St Edmund Hall, Oxford 2:1 (2001-2004)
- Legal Practice Course, Oxford Institute of Legal Practice, Distinction (2004-2005)
- Trained at Allen & Overy and qualified into the Derivatives & Structured Finance team in March 2008