Charles Wakiwaka
Overview
Charles Wakiwaka is a partner in the London Office, and is a member of the firm’s Corporate and Financial Services groups. Charles advises buy-side and sell-side market participants on complex derivative and structured transactions such as fixed income, deal-contingent instruments, repackaging, structured notes and bespoke collateral arrangements across a range of asset classes, including equities, credit and commodities.
Career & Education
- College of Law, London, LPC, 2008
- BPP Law School, London, GDL, 2007
- University of Cambridge, M.A., 2006
- Solicitor, England and Wales
Professional Activities and Memberships
- Member, International Swaps & Derivatives Association
Charles 's Insights
Firm News | 2 min read | 10.04.23
Legal 500 UK Recommends Crowell & Moring in Four Practice Areas
London – October 4, 2023: Crowell & Moring U.K. LLP has been recommended in four practice areas in the Legal 500 United Kingdom 2024. In addition, partner Andrew Knight has been named as a leading individual for asset based lending. The firm’s full rankings can be viewed here.
Blog Post | 06.23.23
Blog Post | 02.01.23
Client Alert | 4 min read | 11.04.22
Representative Matters
- Represented a consortium of investment banks in structuring deal contingent hedging in relation to $10bn debt financing for the 49% acquisition of Aramco's pipelines.
- Represented originators and hedge providers on various securitization structures including RMBS, CMBS, master trust and whole business securitizations.
- Represented issuers on the establishment and update of structured note programmes and advised both issuers and investors in relation to numerous issuances and listings of structured notes, including equity-linked notes, credit-linked notes and bespoke rates issuances.
- Represented Goldman Sachs on the structuring and repackaging of a partial guarantee of Ecuador's social bond, the first ever sovereign social bond, which provides affordable housing for medium to low-income families.
- Represented a consortium of investment banks on a margin loan structured as funded equity derivatives over a basket of listed shares in Spain.
- Represented a major investment bank on funded collar transactions over listed shares in South Africa.
- Represented a major insurance company on collateral arrangements for intermediation and pass-through structures in relation to a large longevity insurance project.
- Represented a major investment bank on structured repo transactions referencing Japanese government bonds, and GMSLA netting opinion for Korean and Taiwan product annexes.
- Advising on various equity and index-linked products, including a synthetic ETF fully funded swap arrangement, sub-participation and security arrangements, and CPPI trades referencing a proprietary index as the premium asset.
- Advising on various credit-linked deposit arrangements, including self-referencing reciprocal or cross-deposit extinguisher arrangements.
- Advising on various commodities-linked arrangements, including asset-backed metals programmes for both issuer and FX/repo counterparties, and off-taker oil price hedging.
- Advising major financial institutions on various regulatory projects and industry-wide initiatives, including EMIR compliance, Brexit and IBOR transition.
Charles 's Insights
Firm News | 2 min read | 10.04.23
Legal 500 UK Recommends Crowell & Moring in Four Practice Areas
London – October 4, 2023: Crowell & Moring U.K. LLP has been recommended in four practice areas in the Legal 500 United Kingdom 2024. In addition, partner Andrew Knight has been named as a leading individual for asset based lending. The firm’s full rankings can be viewed here.
Blog Post | 06.23.23
Blog Post | 02.01.23
Client Alert | 4 min read | 11.04.22
Insights
Crowell & Moring Adds Derivatives Quartet From McGuireWoods In London
|12.06.21
The Global Legal Post
Practices
- Environmental, Social, and Governance
- Infrastructure
- Private Equity
- Corporate and Transactional
- Commercial Finance and Lending — London Practice
- Commercial Finance and Lending
- Derivatives and Structured Finance — London Practice
- Financial Services — London Practice
- Financial Services
- Distressed Debt and Claims Trading
- Derivatives
- Energy
Charles 's Insights
Firm News | 2 min read | 10.04.23
Legal 500 UK Recommends Crowell & Moring in Four Practice Areas
London – October 4, 2023: Crowell & Moring U.K. LLP has been recommended in four practice areas in the Legal 500 United Kingdom 2024. In addition, partner Andrew Knight has been named as a leading individual for asset based lending. The firm’s full rankings can be viewed here.
Blog Post | 06.23.23
Blog Post | 02.01.23
Client Alert | 4 min read | 11.04.22
