This two day advanced level conference programme will provide delegates with advanced theoretical and practical training on documenting and negotiating a broad range of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives documentation. Delegates will be instructed on key operational and legal risks currently affecting OTC derivatives, as well as legal opinion and case law analysis techniques. Delegates will also be guided in drafting and negotiating a broad range of key substantive provisions in master agreements and credit support and collateral agreements. Delegates will then participate in advanced practical roundtable negotiating exercises and case studies with the Expert Trainers in order to comprehensively translate master agreement and collateral documentation theory into practice. Finally, delegates will participate in a series of unique workshops covering central counterparty (CCP) clearing agreements, equity derivatives products and agreements, and credit derivatives products and agreements.

1. 12th
–13th
September 2016
New York, USA
24th
–25th
October 2016
Miami, USA
Advanced OTC Derivatives
Documentation and Negotiation
Your Expert Trainers
Georgianna Fitzgerald, Expert ISDA Negotiator, Consultant
Akber Datoo, Founder, D2 Legal Technology LLP
Sol Steinberg, Founder, OTC Partners New York
Rodrigo Zepeda, Co-Founder, Storm-7 Consulting LTD
The Conference Programme
This two day advanced level conference programme will provide delegates with advanced theoretical and
practical training on documenting and negotiating a broad range of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives
documentation. Delegates will be instructed on key operational and legal risks currently affecting OTC
derivatives, as well as legal opinion and case law analysis techniques. Delegates will also be guided in drafting
and negotiating a broad range of key substantive provisions in master agreements and credit support and
collateral agreements. Delegates will then participate in advanced practical roundtable negotiating exercises and
case studies with the Expert Trainers in order to comprehensively translate master agreement and collateral
documentation theory into practice. Finally, delegates will participate in a series of unique workshops covering
central counterparty (CCP) clearing agreements, equity derivatives products and agreements, and credit
derivatives products and agreements.
Disclaimer
ISDA® is a registered trademark of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., and Storm-7 Consulting Limited is
neither sponsored by nor affiliated with the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA), and the public is
hereby informed that Storm-7 Consulting Limited holds no commercial, private, or other relationship with ISDA.
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2. The Conference Programme
Day 1: Sessions Day 2: Workshops
SESSION 1: Operational and Legal Risks affecting OTC
Derivatives
• Risk Management and Key Operational (Counterparty Credit Risk
and Liquidity Risk) and Legal Risks affecting OTC derivatives.
• Legal Opinion Analysis (by jurisdiction and by counterparty).
• Case Law Analysis (English and U.S. common law approaches to
interpreting OTC derivatives agreements).
SESSION 2: Documenting and Negotiating OTC
Derivatives Agreements: PART I
• Documenting and Negotiating Master Confirmation Agreements and
Key Master Agreement provisions:
– Cross Default, Cross Acceleration, Threshold Amounts and Events
of Default and Termination Events (and disapplication);
– Set-off, Break Clauses, Material Adverse Change (MAC) Clauses,
Tax Representations;
– swaps sharing provisions, swap amendment restrictions, swap
remedies restrictions;
• An overview of ISDA® Definitions and Protocols.
SESSION 3: Documenting and Negotiating OTC
Derivatives Agreements: PART II
• Documenting and negotiating key ISDA® Master Agreement
provisions:
– Illegality, Force Majeure, Additional Termination Events (Change of
Control, Impossibility, Ratings Agency downgrade, Subsequent Rating
Events, Net Asset Value (NAV) Threshold);
– Automatic Early Termination (Insolvency Events and Regimes);
– Netting of Payments (Settlement, Novation, Close-out), Valuation
mechanics (Market Quotation, Loss Valuation, Close-out Amount).
• Review of the legal effect of specialist provisions (Exclusive
Jurisdiction, Fraudulent Misrepresentation, Arbitration)
SESSION 4: Credit Support and Collateral Documentation
and Negotiation
• Guarantees, Proprietary Security Interests, Re-hypothecation risk
and rights, Credit Support Documents and Providers.
• Key ISDA® Credit Support Annex (Security Interest– New York Law)
provisions and negotiating key Wholesale, Migratory, and
Transaction-Specific amendments:
– Amounts (Credit Support, Independent, Minimum Transfer);
– Valuation (Agent, Collateral, Date, Time),
Time (Notification, Resolution, Transfer, Valuation); and
Dispute Resolution mechanisms (Exposure valuation methodologies
and third party valuation determinations).
WORKSHOP 1: Advanced Practical Roundtable
Negotiating Exercise
• Delegates will be actively engaged through a range of
advanced practical OTC derivatives documentation exercises
and case study scenarios in order to comprehensively translate
master agreement and collateral documentation theory into
practice. The workshop will not cover content from Workshops 2
to 4.
WORKSHOP 2: CCP Clearing Agreements
• The dual Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) –
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) U.S. Swaps
clearing framework (Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO),
Securities Clearing Agency, (SCA)).
• CCP and Client Clearing Documentation and common
negotiated provisions (Margin, Termination Events, Pre-Default
Porting).
• Cleared Swap documentation frameworks, standard form
execution agreements and addendums, customer clearing under
modified Master Agreements, and industry protocols.
WORKSHOP 3: Documenting and Negotiating Equity
Derivatives
• Reviewing and drafting trade term sheets, confirmations, and
Master Confirmation Agreement (MCA) terms for a range of
equity derivative products.
• Types of equity derivative products (index, basket, swaps,
forwards, options) and structured equity products.
• Valuation of Underliers, Settlement, Adjustments, Market
Disruption Events, Events of Default, Early Termination Events,
• An overview and comparative analysis of the 2002 and 2011
ISDA® Equity Derivatives Definitions and Transaction Matrices.
WORKSHOP 4: Documenting and Negotiating Credit
Derivatives
• Credit derivatives market, operational framework and the
treatment of credit derivatives under Basel III.
• Credit risk, basis risk, reference obligations, ratings, hedging,
payment, funded and unfunded products, close-out netting.
• Structuring credit derivative products (credit spread option,
credit default swap, total return swap, credit linked note,
collateralized debt obligation, credit indices, secured loans) and
MCAs.
• An overview and comparative analysis of the 2003 and 2014
ISDA® Credit Derivatives Definitions and Physical Settlement
Matrix.
Today's world of centrally-cleared OTFs,
SEFs, centrally-cleared and non-centrally
cleared OTC derivatives is growing ever
more complex, and

3. Conference Expert Trainer Biographies
Georgianna Fitzgerald is an expert ISDA Negotiator and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives
Consultant, with over 25 years' of professional experience gained in drafting and negotiating
ISDA Master Agreements. She is currently an Independent ISDA Negotiator
(Consultant/Contractor) who provides corporate and private equity consulting services to clients
spread across the wealth management, mutual fund, hedge fund, and insurance sectors.
Georgianna has accumulated advanced expertise in drafting and negotiating ISDA Master
Agreements, Credit Support Annexes, Confirmations (IRS, Equity, Currency, FX, Options), and
OTC and related documentation (GMRA, MSDA, MRA, MSLA, MSFTA, Repos, Prime
Brokerage). Prior roles include Assistant Vice President (Senior ISDA Negotiator) at ABN AMRO
Bank (1990-1996), Vice President (Senior ISDA Negotiator) at Dresdner Kleinwort
Benson/Dresdner Bank AG (1996-2004), Consultant at Derivatives/ISDA (2004-2007), and Vice
President – Financial Risk Management at Sun Trust Bank (2007-2010). Georgianna has
managed teams of ISDA negotiators, and has created and implemented a range of complex OTC
templates and monitoring and tracking systems for OTC derivatives, credit ratings, collateral,
CSAs, Confirmations, Tri-Party Agreements, and Tax and Authority documentation.
Sol Steinberg is an expert consultant specializing in OTC derivatives markets, including
practices relating to regulation, risk management, market structure, collateral, valuation, and
financial technology systems. Sol is the founding partner of his firm 'OTC Partners', which is a
boutique value add firm based in New York that specialises in research, content, and business
development. OTC Partners has developed a number of leading research reports covering global
capital markets, has advised central banks on market dynamics in Singapore, Chile, Peru,
Mexico, and Colombia , as well as helping to spearhead the evolution of Chinese OTC derivatives
markets in Beijing, Jinan, Quango, and Shenzhen. Sol's extensive professional experience
encompasses a senior executive position at LCH.Clearnet and nearly a decade of OTC
derivatives product development, risk management, and valuation for Citi. Sol has successfully
commercialised data and analytics tools (e.g. SMART tool, Risk Explorer, Global Market Risk,
CCP2) and has gained a number of prestigious globally recognised industry awards in the
process.
Akber Datoo is founder and managing partner of D2 Legal Technology LLP (D2LT), a fifty-
strong boutique consultant legal data consulting firm. Akber has over 15 years’ experience of
derivatives and a blend of both technology and legal perspectives. His background includes a
front-office derivatives IT role at UBS, as well as a qualified lawyer working in Allen & Overy’s
Derivatives and Structured Finance practice. Akber works with financial institutions to create legal
risk frameworks to ensure regulatory compliance and business optimisation, including the
provision of strategic change management advice relating to process and systems for contract
data modelling, document assembly, search, information retrieval and legal opinion management.
He has been published in numerous leading industry journals such as the Journal of Securities
Operations & Custody (Legal contract data: The new reference data challenge for financial firms).
Rodrigo Zepeda is an expert consultant who specialises in derivatives and financial services
law, regulation, and compliance. He holds a LLM Masters degree in International and
Comparative Business Law, has been an Associate of the Chartered Institute for Securities &
Investment since 2004, and has passed the New York Bar Examination. He is a Reviewer for the
Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance and has also published widely in leading industry
journals such as the Capco Institute's Journal of Financial Transformation, the Journal of
International Banking Law and Regulation, as well as e-books on derivatives law. Noted
publications include "Optimizing Risk Allocation for CCPs under the European Market
Infrastructure Regulation"; "The ISDA Master Agreement 2012: A Missed Opportunity"; "The
ISDA Master Agreement: The Derivatives Risk Management Tool of the 21st Century?"; "To EU,
or not to EU: that is the AIFMD question"; and "The Industrialization Blueprint: Re-engineering the
Future of Banking and Financial Services."

4. Training Suitable for
 Analysts
 Collateral Management Function
 Compliance Officers and Managers
 Corporate Treasurers
 Credit and Legal Professionals
 Dealers
 Fund Managers
 ISDA Negotiators
 Legal Counsel
 OTC Derivatives Buy Side
 OTC Derivatives Documentation
Managers
 Risk Officers and Managers
 Settlements Staff
 Treasury Function
Key Benefits
 Advanced knowledge and understanding of
documenting and negotiating OTC
derivatives, credit support, CCP clearing,
equity, and credit derivatives agreements
 Advanced practical experience gained by
undertaking a range of OTC derivatives
negotiation exercises and case studies
 Extensive pre-conference questionnaire to
identify delegate's key conference objectives
 Lenovo 8" Yoga Tablet pre-loaded with
conference presentations, diagrams, and
documentation to take-away
 Comprehensive conference documentation
 Post-conference expert trainer follow-up to
guarantee all key conference objectives have
been met
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ISDA®
Conference Documentation
Delegates should note that they will be required to bring their own copy of the 2002 ISDA®
Master Agreement
and ISDA®
2014 Standard Credit Support Annex (Security Interest – New York Law). Delegates will be
provided with ISDA®
licensed copies of the 2011 ISDA®
Equity Derivatives Definitions and the 2014 ISDA®
Credit Derivatives Definitions.
Conference Venue
Langham Place, New York
400 Fifth Avenue | New York | NY 10018 Murray Hill Boardroom
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