Deepak Sitlani

A partner since 2007, Deepak is currently head of the Derivatives and Structured Products group in London. He specialises in OTC derivative and securities financing transactions, and the new regulatory environment. He regularly advises both buy-side and sell-side clients, including banks, insurance companies, investment managers, hedge funds, pension funds and corporates. He continues to advise the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) on a range of projects, including Brexit, interest rate reform and the impact of covid-19 on the derivatives market.

He is also one of the team involved in ISDA Create, a collaboration with ISDA to produce an online negotiation platform for derivatives documentation. As such he is on the steering committee for Nakhoda, the firm’s in-house tech start up and so often seeks to combine technology with pure legal work.

Deepak has acted for ISDA on Brexit, the EU Benchmark Regulation, the development of fallbacks to IBOR, drafting the 2020 ISDA Interest Rate Derivatives Definitions, ISDA’s English Law opinion on e-contracts, the development of the next generation of initial margin documentation, the posting of Japanese collateral as initial margin, the 2011 Equity Derivatives Definitions, and a template emerging markets equity option confirmation.

Deepak speaks French and English.