Swaps in Commercial Finance Transactions: Coordinating Loan Terms With the ISDA Master Agreement and Schedule

Ms. Isaac advises a broad range of derivatives market participants - exchanges, financial institutions, asset managers, and commercial end-users, among others - on legal and regulatory matters under the Commodity Exchange Act, the Dodd-Frank Act, and related CFTC and NFA rules and regulations. Likewise, she counsels DAOs, crypto exchanges, tradfi investors, and other digital asset market participants on jurisdictional issues and best practices in an evolving regulatory landscape. Ms. Isaac has significant experience negotiating bespoke derivatives transactions in a variety of asset classes (interest rates, FX, digital assets, and commodities), including ISDA Master Agreements and related documentation. She regularly advises clients on effectively transitioning away from LIBOR.

Mr. Buonanno heads the firm's derivatives group and is a member of its opinion committee and its Uniform Commercial Code committee. Throughout a bank and law firm career spanning more than three decades, he has guided financial institutions, utilities, and other companies in a wide range of industries, helping them manage change, adapt to market developments, and achieve strategic objectives. Mr. Buonanno’s work has involved trillions of dollars in financial assets and has included strategic planning, corporate governance, enterprise structuring, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, securities, capital markets, finance, securitization, insurance, risk management, commodities, derivatives, commercial transactions, housing, real estate, regulatory affairs, litigation and insolvency. As a result of that work, he has helped clients to serve their customers and grow their businesses while maximizing profitability, mitigating losses, allocating capital and managing other resources.