Naffie Lamin is Counsel in Simpson Thacher’s Registered Funds Practice, advising close-end and open-end private investment funds, portfolio companies, corporations and financial institutions on compliance with the Dodd-Frank Act and the Commodity Exchange Act, and other regulatory considerations arising in connection with over-the-counter and exchange traded derivatives, structured products and digital asset products and initiatives. Naffie regularly represents clients in a broad range of customized derivatives transactions, including interest rate, FX and commodities hedging structures in connection with project and energy infrastructure financings.
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Work Highlights
Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:
- Robinhood on its acquisition of Marex North America’s futures commission merchant business
- Marex Group plc on CFTC matters related to its US$292 million IPO on the Nasdaq
- NextDecade on its US$18.5 billion equity and debt project financing for the development of the Rio Grande LNG export facility and associated carbon capture and sequestration facility, the largest greenfield financing in US history, and its follow-on financings
- Coinbase on commodities and derivatives legal and regulatory matters in connection with its direct listing on the Nasdaq
- Investment managers in connection with commodity pool operator and commodity trading advisor regulatory and compliance obligations
- Various sponsors, developers, investment and commercial banks, and investment funds on loan-linked interest rate swaps, cross-currency swaps and deal-contingent hedges in connection with project finance and corporate credit facilities
- Public issuers and other commercial end users on hedging transactions and related Dodd-Frank matters
Education
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St. John’s University School of Law, 2017 J.D.
cum laude, Honorable Theodore T. Jones Jr. '72 Memorial Scholar
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Boston University, 2010 B.A.
cum laude
Naffie Lamin is Counsel in Simpson Thacher’s Registered Funds Practice, based in New York. She advises close-end and open-end private investment funds, portfolio companies, corporations and financial institutions on compliance with the Dodd-Frank Act and the Commodity Exchange Act, and other regulatory considerations arising in connection with over-the-counter and exchange traded derivatives, structured products and digital asset products and initiatives. Naffie regularly represents clients in a broad range of customized derivatives transactions, including interest rate, FX and commodities hedging structures in connection with project and energy infrastructure financings.
Naffie was a member of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) Future Leaders in Derivatives Class of 2024 cohort and in 2019 was named to the National Black Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 list.
Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:
- Robinhood on its acquisition of Marex North America’s futures commission merchant business
- Marex Group plc on CFTC matters related to its US$292 million IPO on the Nasdaq
- NextDecade on its US$18.5 billion equity and debt project financing for the development of the Rio Grande LNG export facility and associated carbon capture and sequestration facility, the largest greenfield financing in US history, and its follow-on financings
- Coinbase on commodities and derivatives legal and regulatory matters in connection with its direct listing on the Nasdaq
- Investment managers in connection with commodity pool operator and commodity trading advisor regulatory and compliance obligations
- Various sponsors, developers, investment and commercial banks, and investment funds on loan-linked interest rate swaps, cross-currency swaps and deal-contingent hedges in connection with project finance and corporate credit facilities
- Public issuers and other commercial end users on hedging transactions and related Dodd-Frank matters
Naffie received her J.D. from St. John's University School of Law, cum laude, in 2017, and her B.A. from Boston University, cum laude, in 2010. She is admitted to practice in New York.