Commodity Derivatives

Move over The Wealth of Nations, Das Kapital and Capitalism and Freedom over on your bookshelf; Commodity Derivatives is a worthy addition to these economic treatises. Michael Sackheim Futures & Derivatives Law Report Review for Credit Derivatives, by Edmund Parker: “This book is first and foremost an essential resource for legal practitioners involved in advising on or structuring credit derivative products.” Paul U Ali Associate Professor, University of Melbourne Review for Credit Derivatives, by Edmund Parker: “The volume that he has given us is, without doubt, the single best publication on credit derivatives for the practising lawyer that is available.” Michael Sackheim Futures & Derivatives Law Report

Edmund Parker is a partner at Mayer, Brown, specialising in derivatives and structured finance in the firm’s London office finance department. He is one of the world’s leading credit derivatives experts and advises many of the most active investment banking institutions and other market participants on diverse funded and unfunded credit derivatives matters. He has been instructed on many of the ‘new generation’ credit derivatives products, such as constant proportion portfolio insurance, constant proportion debt obligations and credit derivative product companies. He has also advised leading financial institutions on managing all of the largest credit events to hit the market in recent years, as well as on the full range of ISDA template documentation and more traditional synthetic collateralised debt obligation and credit linked note structures. He previously practised at Clifford Chance, Sidley Austin, and Gide Loyrette Nouel.