Daniel Deacon is Counsel in the Firm’s European financial services and funds regulatory practice, where he advises private funds, asset managers and private equity portfolio companies across sectors on EU regulatory matters and leads the team’s focus on European-related derivatives and structured transactions.
Daniel advises on U.K. and EU financial market regulations and transactions, including AIFMD, MiFID II and UCITS, as well as helping asset management firms design, develop and structure investment products, including the democratization of access by ordinary investors to private markets investments. Daniel has extensive experience advising buy-side and sell-side clients on complex derivative arrangements and associated regulatory requirements.
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Work Highlights
- EQT in the formation and launch of “EQT Nexus,” EQT’s first semi-liquid, open-end strategy, aimed at providing individual investors with the opportunity to access EQT’s wide range of strategies that are typically reserved for institutional investors
- Blackstone on the derivatives structuring arrangements for its European real estate financings and for its portfolio companies
- Various sponsors on the derivatives structuring and associated regulatory requirements under EMIR, SFTR and MiFID II for their investment funds, including portfolio hedging, share class hedging and the use of derivatives for investment purposes
Education
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BPP University, 2011 LPC
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BPP University, 2009 GDL
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University of Cambridge, 2005 B.A.
Based in Simpson Thacher’s London office, Daniel Deacon is Counsel in the Firm’s European financial services and funds regulatory practice, where he advises private funds, asset managers and private equity portfolio companies across sectors on EU regulatory matters and leads the team’s focus on European-related derivatives and structured transactions.
Daniel advises on U.K. and EU financial market regulations and transactions, including AIFMD, MiFID II and UCITS, as well as helping asset management firms design, develop and structure investment products, including the democratization of access by ordinary investors to private markets investments.
This has included advising various clients, including pension funds, insurance companies, family offices and sovereign wealth funds on their investment management agreements covering various asset classes. In the context of M&A transactions, Daniel has advised clients on regulatory requirements under national change of control regimes and has particular experience with the impact of complex EU rules on transactions, including those applicable to credit rating agencies.
Daniel advises on a wide range of complex derivatives matters. He has deep experience advising both buy-side and sell-side clients on the use of derivatives in structured finance including real estate finance securitizations, infrastructure finance, leverage finance, asset finance and project finance. He has advised on a wide range of deal-contingent hedging arrangements and also provides advice to private equity sponsor portfolio companies on the ongoing management of their derivative documentation and associated regulatory requirements.