GuyLaine Charles

Practice Areas

GuyLaine Charles is the founder of Charles Law PLLC. She has over twenty years of experience structuring, negotiating, and documenting complex financial transactions for buy-side clients, including prominent asset managers, some of the largest public pension plans in the U.S. and Canada, as well as emerging and established hedge funds and private equity funds and their portfolio companies. She also represents market infrastructures and financial institutions. GuyLaine is exceptionally effective at collaborating with stakeholders and advising executives and has a reputation for building consensus among parties with competing interests.

GuyLaine routinely negotiates derivatives and other trading agreements, including ISDA Master Agreements, Master Securities Forward Transaction Agreements, repos, sponsored repos, securities lending agreements, prime brokerages agreements, and futures and options agreements. She also advises on regulatory compliance.

GuyLaine is a speaker, instructor, and moderator at industry conferences, training sessions, and financial institutions across North America, including at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the International Energy Credit Association, the Practising Law Institute, the National Association of Women Owned Law Firms, the New York City Bar Association, the Futures Industry Association, the American Bar Association, Morgan Stanley and the Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec. She has also been a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, the American University Washington College of Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Georgetown Law. GuyLaine also teaches courses on “Energy Derivatives and the ISDA Documentation” and “NAESB Negotiations” through the Oak Leaf Energy Training Institute.

Professional Memberships

GuyLaine is a member of the New York Bar and the Law Society of Ontario.

Languages Spoken

She is fluent in English and French.