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Course overview
Euromoney Training's course 'Legal Aspects of Structured Products' will closely examine those legal issues, such as investor suitability, disclosure, conflicts of interest, misrepresentation and fraud, with a particular focus on the Asian market. The legal principles discussed will be reinforced by looking at real life cases studies. We will also consider the public policy aspects of structured products, such as the advisability of engaging in regulatory arbitrage transactions in the post-financial crisis environment.
Summary of course content
- Overview of the structured products market
- Analysis of the key legal issues for structured products
– Investor suitability
– Disclosure
– Misrepresentation / Fraud
– Conflicts of interest
- Case studies of principal legal issue (eg. Lehman Minibonds)
- Impact of the financial crisis on structured products
- Impact of global regulatory developments on structured products
– Dodd Frank
– Basel III
– EU initiatives
- Legal issues for a developed product: credit-linked products
- Legal issues for new products
– Carbon-linked products
– Shariah compliant products
– Insurance-linked products
METHODOLOGY
The course gives delegates a highly practical and "hands on" working knowledge of the key legal issues
for structured products by focusing on case studies and real life experience. Ample time will be allocated for the participants to discuss, debate and ask questions, with the goal of having the participants learn from each other as well as from the Course Director.
Who should attend this training course?
- In-house lawyers at financial institutions
- Structured products personnel: operational risk, compliance and accounting
- Transaction managers
- Fixed income managers
- Financial regulators
- Law firm associates involved in structured products
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Supporting publication
Hilton Hotel Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
This programme takes place on a non-residential basis at Hilton Hotel Singapore. Non-residential course fees include training facilities, documentation, lunches and refreshments for the duration of the programme. Delegates are responsible for arranging their own accommodation, however, a list of convenient hotels (many at specially negotiated rates) is available upon registration.
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Michael Bennett
Michael is a Principal Financial Officer with the World Bank based in Paris. He has twenty years of experience in the structured products field, as a private lawyer with a major international law firm, as a product structurer with two global investment banks, and as an officer in the treasury of the World Bank, one of the world’s preeminent issuers of structured notes. Michael has spent half of his career in Asia, and the other half split between the United States and Europe.
Prior to joining the World Bank, Michael worked on the fixed income structured products desks of Chase Securities in Tokyo and Lehman Brothers in Hong Kong. Prior to that, he was a lawyer in the capital markets department of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, based first in New York and later in Tokyo, where his practice focused on derivatives and structured products.
Michael graduated from Columbia Law School in New York and has published articles in various law journals on topics including Indonesian bank restructuring, capital markets regulation in Singapore and Taiwan and the regulation of financial derivatives in Asia.
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