Gary Walker | Fieldfisher
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Professional background

Professional background

This is my second stint at the firm, having previously represented it as a partner in the early noughties when I helped develop the practice alongside Guy Usher and Edward Miller.  With 30 years' in-house and private practice experience in my fields of expertise, and on top of my PSL responsibilities, I now undertake ad hoc project work (most recently, for example, in relation to IBOR discontinuance) and fulfil a variety of opinion commisioning, writing and reviewing roles.

I have variously been described as one of the best speakers on OTC derivatives in the City, as a derivatives legend and as a maverick. I have appeared in various legal directories and I am author of Mastering Finance-linked Swaps (FT-Prentice Hall 2003), the only book that deals with interest rate hedging in the context of day to day financing structures.

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Insight

Protecting investors in Mini-Bonds; will new regulation work where the old regulation failed?

28.04.2021
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The ISDA IBOR Protocol: Should you adhere and when?

21.10.2020
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CSDR settlement discipline regime after Brexit

01.07.2020
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Press Release

Business Breakfast "The End of LIBOR and the new EURIBOR: Are you ready?"

17.10.2019
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Publication

Derivatives Alert: Phase 5 IM Relief Confirmed

23.07.2019
After some days of increasing speculation, BCBS and IOSCO have today confirmed that there will be a delay to final implementation of phase 5 of the initial margin rules.
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