Marcin Perzanowski
Marcin Perzanowski is a Partner in the Structured Finance & Derivatives practice at the London office of Simmons & Simmons. He specialises in derivatives and structured product transactions across all asset classes, and regularly advises clients on securities finance and collateral management arrangements.
Marcin's expertise encompasses a diverse range of products, including:
- Financing transactions structured as total return swaps, repurchase agreements, or margin loans, particularly in Emerging Market jurisdictions
- Repo and securities lending arrangements, including those conducted on an agency basis
- Collateral management structures, such as tri-party arrangements and regulatory margining
- Corporate and strategic equity derivatives, including index and equity-linked products
- Credit derivatives, including "fourth trigger" CDS trades, intermediation structures, and deliverability opinions
- Islamic derivatives and repo arrangements
- Commodities and commodity derivatives, encompassing various types of commodity financing arrangements
- Digital asset arrangements
Marcin possesses significant expertise in advising on the regulatory aspects of derivatives and trading arrangements, with a particular focus on the European Market Infrastructure Regulation and its implementing measures, as well as related documentation.
He is a consulting co-editor of the "Practical Derivatives" textbook, a leading resource for derivatives practitioners. Marcin's publications also include three chapters in the "Equity Derivatives" textbook and two chapters on credit derivatives in "Sovereign Debt and Debt Restructuring". Additionally, he has co-edited the "Commodity Derivatives" textbook.