Anne Drakeford
UK Guide 2025
Band 3 : Capital Markets: Derivatives
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About
Provided by Anne Drakeford
Practice Areas
Anne Drakeford specialises in derivatives and structured finance. Anne has worked on a full range of financial market products and transactional securities, including OTC fixed income and equity based derivatives, asset backed securities, credit and equity-linked notes and synthetic CDOs.
Anne also has extensive experience in the derivatives related aspects of loan finance, securitisations and covered bond transactions. In addition, Anne has advised a wide range of clients on collateral arrangements and security issues. She has also managed large scale documentation reviews both for major banking clients as part of their internal risk management exercises and for corporate clients in the context of M&A transactions.
Career
University of Sheffield (LLB) 1996
University of Cambridge (LLM) 1997
Nottingham Trent University (Diploma in Legal Practice) 1998
Joined Clifford Chance 1999
Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2001
Partner since 2010
Chambers Review
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Anne Drakeford commands attention with her noteworthy OTC derivatives practice. She is noted for her understanding of derivatives and their connection with the wider loan finance market.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Anne is brilliant."
"Anne is brilliant."