John M. Brandow

John is chairman of our Derivatives & Structured Products group and a partner in our Capital Markets practice. He advises a wide variety of market participants – commercial and investment banks, issuers and institutional holders of equity positions – on a complex array of equity-related transactions.

John has been actively involved in the design of exchangeable securities containing imbedded options or forward contracts on the underlying equities, the development of mandatory and optional convertible securities issued in capital-raising transactions, the evolution of call spread transactions used to change the economics of convertible securities, and the structuring of public and private hedging transactions using collars and variable prepaid forward contracts. He has also represented major financial institutions on syndicated margin loans, including multi-billion-dollar cross-border deals.

Chambers USA ranks John in Band 1 for derivatives work.